Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Luxury Quotes

It's a luxury to be understood.

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Love is like wildflowers; It's often found in the most unlikely places.

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If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.

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Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.

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There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

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The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. For, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs.

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Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

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God is Unity, but always works in variety.

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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility.

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A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

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No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

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Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

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We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

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Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

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Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

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Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after long time.

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There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

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