Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Needs Quotes

We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.

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It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.

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Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

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We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.

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We pass for what we are.

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

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Conversation is a game of circles.

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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

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In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

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Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.

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Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

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For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments, it should be the festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol, as all other things are symbols of love. Those relations to the best men, which, at one time, we reckoned the romances of youth, become, in the progress of character, the most solid enjoyment.

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In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

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Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.

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No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

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Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.

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In imitation is a bit suicide.

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Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

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Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong

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The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

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