Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Silence Quotes, Suffering Quotes

The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?

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We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods. We cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse or a cow, of a dog, of a cat, of a spider. Far better was the Roman rule to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.

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Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.

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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

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There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

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An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

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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 house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

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Tart, cathartic virtue.

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Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

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Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

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If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

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Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.

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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

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But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

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All science is transcendental or else passes away.

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Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

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Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.

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For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

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