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The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in the spirit and energy it awakens (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The times, the age, what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times? (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of it's thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The difference between talent and genius is, that talent says things which he has never heard but once, and genius things which he has never heard (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Heaven always bears some proportion to Earth. The God of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
To fill the hour, that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forevermore,... Pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hardeyed husbands (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life; nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet every day posed [baffled] by trivial questions at his own supper table (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The hater of property and of government takes care to have his warranty deed recorded; and the book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title page (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Every individual strives to grow and exclude and to exclude and grow, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of it's being on every other creature (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)