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I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a fortune and beget children whose end is likewise to make a fortune, but it is, in few words, that he should explore himself (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature. The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation. There is no skepticism, no atheism but that. Could it be received into common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things? (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man’s vision of the future (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
There comes a time in each man’s education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature’s oldest force is as good as new (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)