Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Hope Quotes, Time Quotes

We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

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Education should be as broad as man.

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If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.

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I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

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Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.

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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

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Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.

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The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

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We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.

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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

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Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

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Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

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Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

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The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

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The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.

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What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village and hamlet in the States, if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition! Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots? "He got five millions from the love of brandy, and he should be glad to know which of the virtues would pay him as much." Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

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