Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Father Quotes, Ocean Quotes

[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.

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Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.

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He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter.

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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

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The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. And in the nights the heavy earth is falling from all the stars down into loneliness. We all are falling. This hand falls. And look at others: it is in them all. And yet there is one who holds this falling endlessly gently in his hands.

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Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.

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Genius Borrows nobly.

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We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

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We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

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Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay

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What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.

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A nation never falls but by suicide.

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The eye of prudence may never shut.

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Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the grand result than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.

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The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

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A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised andshocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.

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