Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Memories Quotes

If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.

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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life was trivial and commonplace. If you would know their tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.

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A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.

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Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

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What you are shouts at me so loudly that I can't hear a word you say.

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New York is a sucked orange.

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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek architecture is the perfect flowering of geometry.

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God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.

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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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Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.

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The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.

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Beware of what you want-for you will get it.

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You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

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I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.

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The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith of Christ is preached.

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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

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Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

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The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

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Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.

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