Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.

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Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

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As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world

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Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

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No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

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Great men are sincere.

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The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

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Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.

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Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.

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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

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To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

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The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.

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Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

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There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

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I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.

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I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . .

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Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.

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Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.

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