Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Snakes Quotes, Rude Quotes

The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.

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You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.

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A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

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All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

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So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.

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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

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Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.

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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day: 'tis the heat which sets our human atoms spinning, overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds, and first addresses in society, and gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue, when once it is begun.

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Rude poets of the tavern hearth, squandering your unquoted mirth, which keeps the ground, and never soars, while jake retorts, and reuben roars; tough and screaming, as birch-bark, goes like bullet to its mark; while the solid curse and jeer never balk the waiting ear.

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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

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Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.

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An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

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In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense.

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Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

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A bullet had found him, his blood ran out as he cried. No money could save him, so he laid down and died. Ooh, what a lucky man he was.

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The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.

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Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

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