Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Fear Quotes

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

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Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

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The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

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Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.

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He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.

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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

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Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.

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We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.

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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

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Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.

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Pride eradicates all vices but itself.

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Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

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Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished of his proportion; and the stricter theunion, the smaller and the more pitiful he is. But leave him alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul, he will go up and down doing the works of a true member, and, to the astonishment of all, the work will be done with concert, though no man spoke.

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A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

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And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.

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An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

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Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.

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The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

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We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

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Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

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