Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Voice Quotes, Secret Quotes

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual

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I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

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He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

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Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.

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In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.

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When a man meets his make, society begins.

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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

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Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

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You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. It is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.

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In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

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Genius is its own end.

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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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It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.

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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

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Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

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When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.

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Therefore all just persons are satisfied with their own praise. They refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that office. They believe that we communicate without speech, and above speech, and that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends, at whatever distance; for the influence of action is not to be measured by miles.

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Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

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Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

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I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

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