Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Plato Quotes, May Quotes

We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.

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True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

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The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow outvalues all theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.

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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

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The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

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The universe is the externalization of the soul.

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Who is he that shall control me? Why may not I act and speak and write and think with entire freedom? What am I to the universe, or, the unvierse, what is it to me? Who hath forged the chains of wrong and right, of Opinion and Custom? And must I wear them?

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The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.

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How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

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Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

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The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

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It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.

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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

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Self-command is the main elegance.

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Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

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To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

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