Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 57

The question is, whether suicide is the way out or the way in. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed. View quote
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What terrible questions we are learning to ask The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon. View quote
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The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly. View quote
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If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument. View quote
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A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on. View quote
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Works of great intellect are great only by comparison with each other. View quote
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London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of today. View quote
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As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity. View quote
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Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive. View quote
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Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it. View quote
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The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting. View quote
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For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world. View quote
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The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship. View quote
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The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed. View quote
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He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter. View quote
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We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables. View quote
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Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty. View quote
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Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music. View quote
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The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
All men in the abstract are just and good. View quote
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Prudence is the virtue of the sense. It is the science of Appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life. View quote
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Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns. View quote
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There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or state, or letters and the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told. It lies in the man that is all anybody can tell you about it. View quote
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