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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father’s or mother’s life?  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) I quote another man’s saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student’s behoof?  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) The boxer’s ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) 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  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance. Nobody wishes bad manners. We must have loyalty and character  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterizes the people  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) Railroad iron is a magician’s rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) No matter what your work, let it be your own. No matter what your occupation, let what you are doing be organic. Let it be in your bones. In this way, you will open the door by which the affluence of heaven and earth shall stream into you  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes) None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed  (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
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