Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Squirrels Quotes, Glasses Quotes

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.

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We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve; and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.

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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

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The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.

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Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

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People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

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Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.

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A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

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O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

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Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

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What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.

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I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

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Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.

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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

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We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

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The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

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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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We read often with as much talent as we write.

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