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Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspirational Quotes (2363)

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Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.
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Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.
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The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.
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The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.
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Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
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If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.
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The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.
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Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
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Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.
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A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.
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It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.
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We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought forthe morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own.
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
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It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.
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Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.
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A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.
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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
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The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.
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The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.
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If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
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In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.
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And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.
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