Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Time Quotes, Opinion Quotes

Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

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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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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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I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

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No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

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The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

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When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

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Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.

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Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes.

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A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays.

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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

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Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.

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One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

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Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of their times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed.

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Look out! Behind you!

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We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.

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Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

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Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

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Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we then feel that the splendid works which he has created, and which in other hours we extol as a sort of self-existent poetry, take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock. The inspiration which uttered itself in Hamlet and Lear could utter things as good from day to day, for ever.

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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

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