Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Husband Quotes, Humility Quotes

Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists, but some of the vices are also. Thus, next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband. A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.

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A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

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A friend is the hope of the heart.

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The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.

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But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.

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If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.

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The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.

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Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

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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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A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

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The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

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Difficulties exist to be surmounted.

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As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. Theuniverse is perforated by a million channels for his activity. All things mount and mount.

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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.

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The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.

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Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

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The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.

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But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.

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But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.

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