Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Animal Quotes

First be a good animal.

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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

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All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.

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The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.

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Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

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Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.

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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

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A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.

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The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

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It is never too late to do right.

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America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.

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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

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Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.

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The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow outvalues all theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.

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One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

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I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

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There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

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There is no king or sovereign state That can fix a hero's rate; Each to all is venerable.

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The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

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I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

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