Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Looks Quotes

Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence; without losing his reverence; let him learn that he is here, not to work, but to be worked upon; and that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause.

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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

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It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

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The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.

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In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

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The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.

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No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.

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All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

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I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

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The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

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When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

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Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!

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We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.

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Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

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The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean.

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The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all. The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop. Nothing is left us now but death. We look to that with a grim satisfaction, saying, there at least is reality that will not dodge us.

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We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.

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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

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