Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Success Quotes, Lying Quotes

I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

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I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

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Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.

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To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

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We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One.

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No sensible person ever made an apology.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

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The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.

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People seem sheathed in their tough organization.

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

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We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

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Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.

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We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

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The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

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I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

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I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.

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Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

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This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.

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