Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist) |
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| Language is the archives of history.
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Masses |
| Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
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Self-Respect |
| Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper.
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Contradiction |
| Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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Food and Eating |
| Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
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Wisdom |
| Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
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Silence |
| Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
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Men and Women |
| Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.
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Action |
| Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.
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Liberty |
| Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
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Thoughts and Thinking |
| Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.
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Wisdom |
| Life is a festival only to the wise.
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Rating: 1.67
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Life and Living |
| Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
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Rating: 3.33
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Life and Living |
| Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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Courtesy |
| Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.
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Rating: 3.00
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Life and Living |
| Life too near paralyses art.
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Lights |
| Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
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Life and Living |
| Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
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Worry |
| Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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Life and Living |
| Live, let live, and help live
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Love |
| Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.
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Rating: 3.50
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Character |
| Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
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Necessity |
| Make yourself necessary to somebody.
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Inventors and Inventions |
| Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.
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Beauty |
| A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.
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God |
| A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.
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Character |
| A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
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Cynics and Cynicism |
| A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
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Friends and Friendship |
| A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
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Adversity |
| A day is a miniature eternity.
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Vision |
| A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.
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Instinct |
| A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.
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Consistency |
| A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
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Friends and Friendship |
| A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
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Friends and Friendship |
| A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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Power |
| A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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Greatness |
| A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
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Rating: 3.33
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Courage |
| A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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Heroes and Heroism |
| A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
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Self-Love |
| A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
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Faces |
| A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
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Adversity |
| A man is a god in ruins.
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Expectations |
| A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like unto him wherever he goes. What you are comes to you.
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Taste |
| A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.
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Rating: 3.08
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Nature |
| A man is related to all nature.
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Happiness |
| A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.
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Thoughts and Thinking |
| A man is what he thinks about all day long
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Anger |
| A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
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Individuality |
| A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
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Genius |
| A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
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