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Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspirational Quotes (2363)

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In England every man you meet is some man's son in America, he may be some man's father.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.
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The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.
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The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return.
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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!
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Art is a jealous mistress.
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If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!
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Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.
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The end of being is to know and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Never read any book that is not a year old.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I unsettle all things.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.
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The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.
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One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.
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Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.
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I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.
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If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.
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Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.
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I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.
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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.
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Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Convert life into truth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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