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Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past? (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art... Wherever life is dear he is a demigod (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity boy, a bastard, or an interloper (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of all fiction (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tie does not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Our faith comes in moments... Yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)