Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Fate Quotes

We may be partial, but Fate is not.

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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

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Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

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The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

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The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.

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People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

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The first point of courtesy must always be truth.

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Test of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove; Never was poet, of late or of yore, Who was not tremulous with love-lore.

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A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected.

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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

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Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.

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Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.

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Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.

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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

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Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

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So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.

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All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws; nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs, by imitation.

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We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

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All promise outruns performance.

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