Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Fate Quotes, Destiny Quotes

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

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Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

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The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.

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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.

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The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

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The life of man is a self-evolving circle.

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The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.

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We acquire the strength we have overcome.

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All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

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The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

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There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.

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We are all wise for other people, none for himself.

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The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

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The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

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The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

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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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Difficulties exist to be surmounted.

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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

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A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.

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