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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: Their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: They seem to steal their own dividends  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) The best bribe which London offers today to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) The world is full of judgment days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation... He is the world's eye  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) There is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers it's perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... Beware of me, it says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power, and organizes a huge instrumentality of means  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that it's gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) Things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) The thirst for adventure is the vent which destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) This gives force to the strong - that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, never read a book that is not a year old. Never read any but the famed books. Never read any but what you like  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of can't and hypocrisy  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) There are books... Which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, anywhere but here  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: They make the Earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
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