Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Success Quotes

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

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Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.

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Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.

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Rude poets of the tavern hearth, squandering your unquoted mirth, which keeps the ground, and never soars, while jake retorts, and reuben roars; tough and screaming, as birch-bark, goes like bullet to its mark; while the solid curse and jeer never balk the waiting ear.

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The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might well seem astounding. All this drudgery, from cockcrowing to starlight, for all these years, to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool.

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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

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Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

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The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.

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Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

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Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.

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There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.

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Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

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Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color, speaks only through the most poetic forms; but first and last, it must still be at bottom a biblical statement of fact.

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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

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When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.

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The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night.

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Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.

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Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.

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