Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Mind Quotes, Genius Quotes

Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.

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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

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The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the faces and houses around to shine. Nay, the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable.

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He is great who confers the most benefits.

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I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic.

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Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?

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The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.

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The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'

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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

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The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspiration, and in ecstacy.

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We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.

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If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground.

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Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

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

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Traveling is a fool's paradise.

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Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

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Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. The simplest utterances are worthiest to bewritten, yet are they so cheap, and so things of course, that, in the infinite riches of the soul, it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground, or bottling a little air in a phial, when the whole earth and the whole atmosphere are ours.

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Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage, can plead any immunity; they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice, or down they must go, dignity and all.

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