Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Independent Quotes, Men Quotes

He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.

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Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

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[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

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Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter - if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?

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Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature.

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We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

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Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

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One idea lights a thousand candles.

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Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

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A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

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As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

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The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs.

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I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

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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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The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

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In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power ofbeing greatly useful.

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A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.

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There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?

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The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

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The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.

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