Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Causes Quotes, Influence Quotes

For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.

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Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.

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Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

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Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

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The reality is more excellent than the report.

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Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.

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Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

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Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

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Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.

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To be gret is to be misunderstood.

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Where there is no vision a people perish.

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The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

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You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

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Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.

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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

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Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

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All great men come out of the middle classes.

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Reality is a sliding door.

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You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

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Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

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