Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Integrity Quotes, Distance Quotes

It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.

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Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

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Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

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The primary wisdom is intuition.

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God is Unity, but always works in variety.

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We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

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There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

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There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.

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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.

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The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

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In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely, the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.

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Universally, the better gold the worse man. The political economist defies us to show any gold mine country that is traversed by good roads, or a shore where pearls are found on which good schools are erected.

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The finest poetry was first experience.

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The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.

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For, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring orrather terminating my own soul.

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The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

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The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas.

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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

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