Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Age Quotes, Belief Quotes

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

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He is great who confers the most benefits.

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As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.

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I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.

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The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.

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Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?

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Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

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What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.

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There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.

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The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.

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Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.

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Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy; a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

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To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to have the sea, by voyaging; to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople: to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.

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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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Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.

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America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.

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Can rules or tutors educate The semigod whom we await? He must be musical, Tremulous, impressional, Alive to gentle influence Of landscape and of sky And tender to the spirit-touch Of man's or maiden's eye.

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With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.

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Souls are not saved in bundles.

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Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

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