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Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,- Nothing refuse. (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men to thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by theopulent, can be enjoyed by all. (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion. (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player. (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays. (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end. (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded. (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Our chief want in life, is, someone who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him we are easily great. (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world. (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done. (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion. (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one. (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct. (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretch’d beneath the pines When the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and pride of man, At the Sophist’s schools, and the learned clan; For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet? (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply. (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand. (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol. (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
I will not hide my tastes or aversions...If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own. (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry. (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be a friend (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Flowers... Are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)