Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Learning Quotes

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

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Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.

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I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

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These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

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The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature.

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Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.

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The borrower runs in his own debt.

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Every man I meet is in some way my superior...

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The beautiful is never plentiful.

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For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

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It is a tie between men to have read the same book.

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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

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The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.

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To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.

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A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

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No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.

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The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

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After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

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A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

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Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.

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