Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Mean Quotes, Humanity Quotes

The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a Transcendentalist; for then is he paralyzed, and can never do anything for humanity.

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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.

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Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

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Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.

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The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.

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One must be an inventor to read well.

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A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession; a religious church would not complain.

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The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

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One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars

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Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.

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Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

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Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.

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Society is a hospital of incurables.

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Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

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As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

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People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

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The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?

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We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.

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