Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Cutting Quotes

Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.

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The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

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Who gave thee, O Beauty, The keys of this breast,-- Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say, when in lapsed ages Thee knew I of old? Or what was the service For which I was sold?

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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

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Men consort in camp and town But the poet dwells alone.

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The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

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Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

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I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way.

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Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

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The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.

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The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

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Every reform was once a private opinion.

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But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

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The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says "Do not flatter your benefactors," but who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.

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All life is an experiment.

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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

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If the race is good, so is the place.

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The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm, and in the miscellany of metropolitan life, and that these few are alone to be regarded,--the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love what is simple and beautiful; independence and cheerful relation, these are the essentials,--these, and the wish to serve,--to add somewhat to the well-being of men.

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The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

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