Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Age Quotes, Comfort Quotes

Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are.

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What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

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Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

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Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

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In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.

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Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

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People who know how to act are never preachers.

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London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

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The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.

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No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.

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If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

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It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

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The borrower runs in his own debt.

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In good writing, words become one with things.

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We never touch but at points.

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The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very little affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.

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Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.

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The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought.

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