Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Long Quotes

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

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Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.

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If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.

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It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.

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A little integrity is better than any career.

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Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.

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It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

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Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.

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There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

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Shallow men believe in luck.

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The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

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Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

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Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.

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Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

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Wisdom is infused into every form.

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In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.

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Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast, with a daily newspaper; a well glazed parlor, with marbles, mirrors and centre-table; and the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year.

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Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

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Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.

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Art is the path of the creator to his work.

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