Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Passion Quotes, Men Quotes

The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.

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A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

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Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.

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Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.

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Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

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The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

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As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

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The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

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If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.

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The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

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In vain produced, all rays return; Evil will bless, and ice will burn.

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A man's library is a sort of harem.

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Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.

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Ability without honor has no value.

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There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.

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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

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Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universalmovements of the soul, he hideth; they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.

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A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

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