Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Two Quotes

A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched.

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All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.

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In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.

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Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

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None shall rule but the humble,And none but Toil shall have.

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The only way to have a friend is to be one.

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Friendship buys friendship.

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Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.

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Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir.

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The world is all outside, it has no inside.

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If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it.

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Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

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The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.

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Miracle comes to the miraculous, not to the arithmetician.

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Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.

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The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.

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The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

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We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

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By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.

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