Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Humility Quotes, Heaven Quotes

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

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Look out! Behind you!

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A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.

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Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

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Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.

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Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

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The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

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In good writing, words become one with things.

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Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.

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Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

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The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity

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If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?

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Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

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There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.

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