Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Work Quotes, Men Quotes

Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.

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[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.

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The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high refinement of modern life,in arts, in sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality, and a purpose; and first, last, midst, and without end, to honor every truth by use.

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To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.

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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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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

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The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members

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Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.

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It is a tie between men to have read the same book.

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In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

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The State is our neighbors; our neighbors are the State.

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If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the black man must serve,and be exterminated. But if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him: he will survive and play his part. So now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint, and the Haytian heroes, or of the leaders of their race in Barbadoes and Jamaica, outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.

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You take a weakness and start making it stronger.. You don't have to build your strengths - that you already possess... It is your weakness that needs the exercise

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The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

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Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.

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A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

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Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.

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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

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