Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, People Quotes

The instinct of the people is right.

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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

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Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

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In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because it is symmetrical and fair. Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.

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Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

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Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

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Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.

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I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy.

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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

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I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

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My hours are peaceful centuries.

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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

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I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.

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The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

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Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

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Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

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All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.

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Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.

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If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

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