Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Truth Quotes, Men Quotes

[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

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All great men come out of the middle classes.

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Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul. . Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man.

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The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why the plain, or meadow of space, was strown with these flowers we call suns, and moons, and stars; why the deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for, in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought.

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

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I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me.

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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.

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There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

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The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.

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The world belongs to the energetic.

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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

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Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.

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Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

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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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Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.

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The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

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As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

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A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

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Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth.

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