Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Light Quotes

We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

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Self-trust is the first secret of success.

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Fear always springs from ignorance.

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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

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What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?

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There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

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The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

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The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.

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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

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What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

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Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

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Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.

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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

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The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.

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If you want a friend you need to be a friend.

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The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

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As the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain, the time will come when we too shall hold nothing back, but shall eagerly convert more than we now possess into means and powers, when we shall be willing to sow the sun and the moon for seeds.

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