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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby, so helpless and so ridiculous  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be it's martyr  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man  (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 got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; Read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) A man cannot utter 2 or 3 sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
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