Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Men Quotes

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

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Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?

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No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

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Genius is its own end.

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With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.

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Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

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The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.

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Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

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It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

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Music and Wine are one.

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Gold and iron are good To buy iron and gold.

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A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

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Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.

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He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

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Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization. We call these millions men; but they are not yet men. Half-engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.

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In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

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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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The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

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A little praise goes a great ways.

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Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths Whence a smokeless incense breathes.

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