Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

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The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your bookshelf and your task. When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you, and you shall accept that loathsomeness with joy. The moth must fly to the lamp, and you must solve those questions though you die.

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Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.

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Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world better than they found it, while looking for the best in others, and giving the best they have.

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I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

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Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.

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The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages

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The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women; and every brave heart must treat society asa child, and never allow it to dictate.

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You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

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The pest of society is egotists.

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Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

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Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

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Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.

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To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.

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Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.

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The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

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The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.

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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

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