Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Character Quotes, Loss Quotes

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

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No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.

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The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of.

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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

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Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself especially how you choose to think about your situation.

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What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

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The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

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The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

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The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

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Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

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Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

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Pictures must not be too picturesque.

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People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

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The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

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The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.

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Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

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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 make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

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Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and are the victims at all times of the nearest object. There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all times. Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood.

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I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.

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