Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Men Quotes

Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.

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Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.

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The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.

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And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

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When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.

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We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

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The less government we have the better.

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Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

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Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

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The inmost in due time becomes the outmost.

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The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

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Pictures must not be too picturesque.

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Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.

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Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

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Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

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Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.

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The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

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After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

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The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.

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