Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Character Quotes, Volcanoes Quotes

We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.

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Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.

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A moment is a concentrated eternity.

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Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

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I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.

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The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

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Every natural action is graceful.

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As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.

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Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come. But whence and when: Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

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For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

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Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

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There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.

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Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.

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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.

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Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

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We read often with as much talent as we write.

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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!

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