Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Deeds Quotes, Might Quotes

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

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The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

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When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion.

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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

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In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.

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Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.

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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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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

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Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

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Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told.

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All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

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One must be an inventor to read well.

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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

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Silent rushes the swift Lord Through ruined systems still restored, Broadsowing, bleak and void to bless, Plants with worlds the wilderness; Waters with tears of ancient sorrow Apples of Eden ripe to-morrow. House and tenant go to ground, Lost in God, in Godhead found.

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It cannot be but that at intervals throughout society there are real men intermixed . . . as the carpenter puts one iron bar in his bannister for every five or six wooden ones.

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We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

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The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.

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