~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes ~

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We do not live an equal life but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy then a sorrow now a sin then a generous or brave action.

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When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

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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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The high prize of life the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.

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A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history and his wants.

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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master and a task for life is to furnish watch show it and keep it in repair the rest of his life.

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We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly in to the future; but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

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Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.

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Whatever you do you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.

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Some of your hurts you have cured And the sharpest you still have survived But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived.

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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.

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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

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The soul contains the event that shall befall it for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.

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Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice ambition envy anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

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You have first an instinct then an opinion then a knowledge as the plant has root bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.