Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

To be great, you must be misunderstood

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But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

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An empire is an immense egotism.

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Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions, and have a separate value, it is worthless.

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The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

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The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.

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That man is idle who can do something better.

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When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

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Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.

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Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.

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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

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Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.

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There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

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Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

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Civilization depends on morality.

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Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.

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

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Some men at the approach of a dispute neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument, they think nothing is doing. Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts, so that you get from them somewhat to remember; others lay criticism asleep by a charm. Especially women use words that are not words,--as steps in a dance are not steps,--but reproduce the genius of that they speak of; as the sound of some bells makes us think of the bell merely, whilst the church chimes in the distance bring the church and its serious memories before us.

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All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

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