Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Truth Quotes, Moving Quotes

But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

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I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.

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Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

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Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.

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Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is.

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

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Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

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If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade,--the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element, and forcing it on our distinct notice,--we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.

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To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

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Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

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Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

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Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

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A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched.

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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

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The language of the street is always strong.

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When it is dark enough, men see the stars.

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Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.

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God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.

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Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

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