Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Success Quotes, Men Quotes

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

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A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.

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Culture opens the sense of beauty.

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Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.

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Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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The only prudence in life is concentration.

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The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

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Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterizes the people.

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The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

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If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

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Reality is a sliding door.

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All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.

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There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant, as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces, so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained by the hours.

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The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

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But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

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