Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Horse Quotes, Feet Quotes

A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.

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The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.

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In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

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The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

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If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.

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How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

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Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

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The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish.

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Wise men are not wise at all times.

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Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

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The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.

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The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

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Be brave enough to do the loving thing.

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Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

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That which builds is better than that which is built.

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A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray.

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All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

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Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

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In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes; and in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character; persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.

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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.

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