Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Eye Quotes

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.

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Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.

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In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

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My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.

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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

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And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.

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Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.

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The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

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Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.

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All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

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Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

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Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.

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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 deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.

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Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

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Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

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I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that binds me to it -- let these be the sandy foundations of falsehoods. What I revere and obey in it is its reality, its boundless charity, its deep interior life, the rest it gives to my mind, the echo it returns to my thoughts, the perfect accord it makes with my reason through all its representation of God and His Providence; and the persuasion and courage that come out thence to lead me upward and onward.

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