Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Friendship Quotes, League Quotes

Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.

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It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.

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Calmness is always godlike.

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We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.

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The secret of poetry is never explained,— is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, and the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, and knows not that they are such. 'T is as easy as breath. 'T is like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, and none knows what it is.

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What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

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Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.

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The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and, by inference, in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome, and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure, under his showing, by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But, when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans, and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.

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We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.

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I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

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Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

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The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

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As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

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Be brave enough to do the loving thing.

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The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

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[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.

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Genius is intellect constructive.

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We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

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