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Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, blessing all lands with it's charity (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Seeing only what is fair, sipping only what is sweet,... Leave the chaff, and take the wheat (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The hero is not fed on sweets, daily his own heart he eats; chambers of the great are jails, and head winds right for royal sails (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: The latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy; a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not possess (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
They who talk much of destiny, their birth star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evil they fear (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
There comes a period of the imagination to each - a later youth - the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
We know who is benevolent by quite other means than the amount of subscription to soup societies. It is only low merits that can be enumerated (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Vigor is contagious; and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The mean man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom meanness withholds some important benefit (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power - the gentleman (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, what right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal? (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)