Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Hate Quotes, Son Quotes

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

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The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.

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All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

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Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.

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The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.

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Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.

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Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.

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Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

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He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances.

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Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.

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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.

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But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

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Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

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He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.

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Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.

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All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

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Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

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Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.

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