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In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
Topic: Geography
Source: None
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The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me,
correspondent to my flowing unto him.
Topic: Gifts
Source: Essays--Of Gifts
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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
Topic: Giving
Source: None
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Topic: Giving
Source: None
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God enters by a private door into every individual.
Topic: God
Source: None
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Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,--
Can your lurking thought surprise,
And interpret your device,
. . . .
All things wait for and divine him,--
How shall I dare to malign him?
Topic: Gods
Source: Initial Doemonic and Celestial Love (pt. I)
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Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Topic: Grace
Source: None
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He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds
us of others.
Topic: Greatness
Source: Essays--Second Series--Uses of Great Men
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Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding
the secret to another soul.
Topic: Greatness
Source: Uses of Great Men
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The bigger they are, the further they have to fall.
Topic: Greatness
Source: Uses of Great Men
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
Topic: Greatness
Source: None
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Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Topic: Happiness
Source: None
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A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
Topic: Harmony
Source: None
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Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Topic: Haste
Source: None
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Topic: Hate
Source: None
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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
Topic: Hearing
Source: None
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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Topic: Heart-quotes
Source: None
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Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Topic: Heart-quotes
Source: None
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To believe your own thought, to believe that that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,-that is genius. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Topic: Heart-quotes
Source: None
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
Topic: Heaven
Source: None
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Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
Topic: Heroes
Source: Essay--Heroism
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The hero is not fed on sweets,
Daily his own heart he eats;
Chambers of the great are jails,
And head-winds right for royal sails.
Topic: Heroes
Source: Essays--Heroism--Introduction
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The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.
Topic: Heroism
Source: None
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a
thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul,
Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
Topic: History
Source: Essays--History
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There is properly no history, only biography.
Topic: History
Source: Essays--History
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All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
Topic: History
Source: None
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The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.
Topic: Home
Source: English Traits--Wealth
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Topic: Home
Source: None
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Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.
Topic: Humanity
Source: None
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.
Topic: Identity
Source: None
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It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.
Topic: Illness
Source: None
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Imitation is suicide.
Topic: Imitation
Source: None
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Insist on yourself; never imitate.
Topic: Imitation
Source: None
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Nor knowest thou what argument
Thy like to thy neighbor's creed has lent,
All are needed by each one;
Nothing is fair or good alone.
Topic: Influence
Source: Each and All
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The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts,
is a power behind the eye.
Topic: Insanity
Source: Essays--Conduct of Life--Of Behaviour
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The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion.
The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the
mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into
every individual.
Topic: Intellect
Source: Essays--Intellect
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Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each
other.
Topic: Intellect
Source: Literary Ethics
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'Tis good-will makes intelligence.
Topic: Intellect
Source: The Titmouse (l. 65)
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Topic: Intelligence
Source: None
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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should
be an inventor.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Topic: Invention
Source: Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality
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If a man owns land, the land owns him.
Topic: Land
Source: None
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Language is fossil poetry.
Topic: Language
Source: Essays--The Poet
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Language is a city to the building of which every human being
brought a stone.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Topic: Language
Source: Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality
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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
Topic: Language
Source: None
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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
Topic: Law
Source: None
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If you shoot at a king you must kill him.
Topic: Leadership
Source: None
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I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son.
Topic: Learning
Source: None
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The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
Topic: Libraries
Source: None
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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
Topic: Lies
Source: None
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The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.
Topic: Life
Source: None
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