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Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspirational Quotes (2364)

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When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.
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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
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It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.
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Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.
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The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.
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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.
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Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.
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We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
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Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.
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There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?
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All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
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If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.
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Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.
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I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints.
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Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
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Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.
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A little integrity is better than any career.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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