Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Wise Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

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A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.

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The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

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Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

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The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

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Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.

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The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

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The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

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The only method to possess a buddy is always to be one.

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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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There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him, that thus he is an overmatch for all antagonists that could combine against him.

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If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

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The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.

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We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

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Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

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Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

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The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

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The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.

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