Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Family Quotes, Two Quotes

An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.

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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

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Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

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The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.

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Moderation in all things, especially moderation.

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Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

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I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.

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We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.

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Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

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there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

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Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals; - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls.

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I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

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The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

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Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

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For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

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A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay taxes, by going to jail, or by taking another man's crops or squatting on his land. By none of these ways can he free himself; no, nor by paying his debts with money; only by obedience to his own genius.

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I see my trees repair their boughs.

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Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

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The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.

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