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Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspirational Quotes (2363)

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Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air was fame.
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Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
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If you cannot be free be as free as you can.
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Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.
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And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.
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Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
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Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.
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Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.
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Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.
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Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.
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So far as a person thinks they are free.
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Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths Whence a smokeless incense breathes.
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The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
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Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.
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Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
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The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.
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Pride is handsome, economical pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.
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I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.
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Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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An expense of ends to means is fateMorganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.
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Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.
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To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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