Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Life Quotes, Sweet Quotes

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

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If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.

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Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

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Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

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There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

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We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.

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The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.

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Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave.

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This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

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Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.

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To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.

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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

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In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.

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We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.

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Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we havehad our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.

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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

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I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.

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It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of the tastes, no habit of command, no association with the elegant, or even depth of affection, can bestow that delicacy and that grandeur of bearing which belong only to the mind accustomed to celestial conversation,--all else is but gilt and cosmetics, beside this, as expressed in every look and gesture.

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Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

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The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.

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