Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Fire Quotes

Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

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Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

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Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

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Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

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I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic conqueror. He who shall bravely and gracefully subdue this Gorgon of Convention and Fashion, and show men how to lead a clean, handsome and heroic life amid the beggarly elements of our cities and villages; whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor, and make his own name dear to all history.

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The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.

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I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

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The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

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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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Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

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Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons.

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Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

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Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.

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Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own; but when they see it proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration.

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The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.

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You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.

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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

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But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God.

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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.

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All diseases run into one, old age.

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