Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Bread Of Life Quotes

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

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At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.

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To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.

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The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

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though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

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And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It agitates and tears him, and perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation.

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My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

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A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised andshocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.

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Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

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Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

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Great thoughts ensure musical expression.

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To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

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Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

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We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

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A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched.

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Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

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Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

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Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

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