Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Running Quotes, Heart Quotes

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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Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

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Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

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The populace drags down the gods to their own level.

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Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

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The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.

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Some will always be above others.

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The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.

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In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say.

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Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.

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

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Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)

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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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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

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Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

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The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.

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The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

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Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

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If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

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