Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 54

He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital. View quote
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We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. View quote
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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. View quote
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The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities. View quote
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Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls. View quote
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Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.... View quote
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The highest virtue is always against the law. View quote
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Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. View quote
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Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor but they grope ever upward towards consciousness the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground. View quote
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The only reward of virtue is virtue. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist. View quote
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All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of a rabbit, rabbits. View quote
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Nature and literature are subjective phenomena every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast. View quote
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The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community. View quote
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'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms. View quote
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The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions. View quote
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The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made. View quote
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Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. View quote
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The gentleman is a man of truth. View quote
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One of our statesmen said, 'The curse of this country is eloquent men.' (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in. View quote
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The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men. View quote
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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought. View quote
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Men are lenses through which we read our own minds. View quote
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