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Mankind Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

39 Mankind quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A ship stuck on a rocky shore feels the weight of melancholy, much like humanity’s condition in a world of conflict between material wants and moral truths. Emerson’s quotes point out that conversation is a competitive art and that true heroism often goes against the crowd’s voice.

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All mankind loves a lover.

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All mankind love a lover.

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Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.

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Man is the dwarf of himself.

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Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.

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There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.

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The populace drags down the gods to their own level.

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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

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A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

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Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

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Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to…

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Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation…

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What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

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It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

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Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in…

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Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.

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The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last…

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A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. Then…

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Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is…

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The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in…

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The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the…

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Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that…

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The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the…

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And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them…

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As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness;…

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Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept…

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Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the…

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Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of…

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Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the…

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Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a…

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There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all…

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Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and…

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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising…

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Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man,…

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The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and…

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For, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring…

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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which…

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The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin…

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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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