Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Jesus Quotes, Hate Quotes

This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.

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Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

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In good writing, words become one with things.

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An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox, Methodism of Wesley, abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man, then, know his worth, and keep things under his feet.

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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.

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Say, what other metre is it Than the meeting of the eyes? Nature poureth into nature Through the channels of that feature Riding on the ray of sight, Fleeter far than whirlwinds go, Or for service, or delight, Hearts to hearts their meaning show.

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Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

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The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.

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Do your thing, and I shall know you.

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And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

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Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven to earth, of matter to mind, of the part to the whole, is our guide. As there is a science of stars, called astronomy; and science of quantities, called mathematics; a science of qualities, called chemistry; so there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.

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Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

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See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

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The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

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In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

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[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

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I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

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Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart.

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In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.

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Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

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