Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Wise Quotes, Fate Quotes

Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?

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I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he] threatens his whole threat "I will not love you."

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It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.

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Miracle comes to the miraculous, not to the arithmetician.

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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

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A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower

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Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

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That which builds is better than that which is built.

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Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

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New arts destroy the old.

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Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.

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No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.

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Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

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A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays.

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Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

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Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

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Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

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There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.

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[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

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