Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Character Quotes, Volcanoes Quotes

We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.

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It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

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An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

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A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

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The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

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What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

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

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When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

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God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.

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Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

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An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.

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The less government we have the better.

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The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.

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You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

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But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.

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We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.

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