Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Profound Quotes, Age Quotes

The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

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What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid but that which is in his nature, and which must grow out of him as long as he exists. The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness.

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A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.

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Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

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A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

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We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

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We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own. If it could be satisfactorily shown that they esteemed it authorized and transmitted forever, that does not settle the question for us. We know how inveterately they were attached to their Jewish prejudices, and how often even the influence of Christ failed to enlarge their views. On every other subject succeeding times have learned to form a judgement more in accordance with the spirit of Christianity than was the practice of the early ages.

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Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

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The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

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Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

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We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

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Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

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Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

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We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

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The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

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Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

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General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

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Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

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Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

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