Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Lying Quotes, Fate Quotes

Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

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Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.

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Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

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The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.

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For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them, and proceeds obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceed. We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain of action and of thought.

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How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.

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Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.

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I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

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Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.

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I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.

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Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

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Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.

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Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

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American mind a wilderness of opportunities.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

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Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.

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Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

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Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

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Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.

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