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Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspirational Quotes (2364)

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.
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We pass for what we are.
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Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.
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And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.
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The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.
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Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses yet it does not surprise the moral sentiment that was older and awaited expectant these larger insights.
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Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.
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The dearest events are summer-rain.
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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
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Speech is better than silence silence is better than speech.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!
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It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.
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Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.
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A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.
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Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.
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We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
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I honor health as the first Muse.
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Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
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Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.
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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.
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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.
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The education of the will is the object of our existence.
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For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.
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The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.
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