Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, People Quotes, Style Quotes

Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.

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We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts.

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

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The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.

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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

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Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

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We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

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The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

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The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

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It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.

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How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.

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We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.

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My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound; The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound!

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When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.

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though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

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If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.

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Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.

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We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

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