Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Country Quotes, Selfish Quotes

The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.

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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility.

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People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

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Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm and number; But, leaving rule and pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme. "Pass in, pass in," the angels say

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How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!

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Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.

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What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

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I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. But the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill,--at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.

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A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast. Its fit hour oactivity is night; its actions are insane, like its whole constitution.

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Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

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Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

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He is a good man who can receive a gift well.

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Genius Borrows nobly.

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The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

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I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

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For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.

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Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.

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