Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

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Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone.

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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else for everything you gain, you lose something else.

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Every man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value.

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Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.

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The only gift is a portion of thyself.

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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

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Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

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The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe the key to all ages is -- Imbecility imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments victims of gravity, custom, and fear.

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God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.

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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

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The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

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Real action is in silent moments.

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Obedience alone gives the right to command.

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Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

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This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.

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Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

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Everything runs to excess every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

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The soul is no traveler the wise man stays at home... Traveling is a fool's paradise.

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The senses collect the surface facts of matter...It was sensation when memory came, it was experience when mind Acted, it was knowledge when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important Benefit.

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Thought...quickly tends to convert itself into a power, And organizes a huge instrumentality of means.

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Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it.

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Art is a jealous mistress.

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