Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Faults Quotes, Facts Quotes

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

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Look out! Behind you!

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Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of his fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds;the sky, of tokens; the ground is all memoranda and signatures; and every object covered over with hints, which speak to the intelligent.

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Activity is contagious.

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One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.

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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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Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.

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A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.

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O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

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The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.

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Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in many materials to many temporary ends. Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakspeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. Painting was called "silent poetry," and poetry "speaking painting." The laws of each art are convertible into the laws of every other.

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There is one mind common to all individual men

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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

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Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

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A man is related to all nature.

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Self-command is the main elegance.

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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

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I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

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Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

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