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Humans Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy, like a ship stuck on rocks. The quotes compare nature’s parts to metaphors for the mind, and they draw a line between duties that come from humans and beliefs that come from God. They also note that doing good work can give a person quiet confidence.

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A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.

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The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

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Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

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The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

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The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

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How much of human life is lost in waiting.

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Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

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Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.

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When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church…

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But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which…

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The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say…

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The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'

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The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

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Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

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Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

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The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is…

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Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to…

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What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a…

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Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out…

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I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear…

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Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the…

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Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be…

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We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort…

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It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has…

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The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;"…

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and…

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The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it…

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Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations…

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The…

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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science, and such is the mechanical determination of our age, and…

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We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. The whole human family is bathed with an element of love…

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There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

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America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human…

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These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its…

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Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

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The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of…

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The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

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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…

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Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

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I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight…

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…

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