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“All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quote source: 1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860) Power
“As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quote source: 1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860) Power
“We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself withersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quote source: 1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860) Wealth
“Wealth begins in a tight roof that keeps the rain and wind out; in a good pump that yields you plenty of sweet water; in two suits of clothes, so to change your dress when you are wet; in dry sticks to burn; in a good double-wick lamp; and three meals; in a horse, or a locomotive, to cross the land; in a boat to cross the sea; in tools to work with; in books to read; and so, in giving, on all sides, by tolls and auxiliaries, the greatest possible extension to our powers, as if it added feet, and hands, and eyes, and blood, length to the day, and knowledge, and good-will. Wealth begins with these articles of necessity.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The world is his, who has money to go over it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Art is a jealous mistress.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“If a man own land, the land owns him.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quote source: 1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860) Culture
“I have been quoted as saying captious things about travel; but I mean to do justice. I think, there is a restlessness in our people, which argues want of character. All educated Americans, first or last, go to Europe; — perhaps, because it is their mental home, as the invalid habits of this country might suggest. An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe." Can we never extract this tape-worm of Europe from the brain of our countrymen?”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quote source: 1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860) Worship
“We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances...Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quote source: 1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860) Beauty
“Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quote source: 1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860) Beauty
“If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it, the beauty forsakes all the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quote source: 1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860) Illusions
“Our chief want in life, is somebody who shall make us do what we can.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quote source: 1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860) Considerations by the Way
“There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, — now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Source: 1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860), Behavior
“Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others, and this is a gift interred only by the self.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, — "Let there be truth between us two forevermore".”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Source: 1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860), Behavior
“'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Source: 1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860), Behavior
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