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May Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the…
- The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we…
- Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man…
- What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may…
- We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
- Always scorn appearances and you always may.
- There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.
- Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.
- Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
- In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are…
- The eye of prudence may never shut.
- Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone);…
- We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.
- For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
- I thought as I rode in the cold pleasant light of Sunday morning how silent & passive nature offers, every morn, her wealth to man;…
- We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and…
- The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
- Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.
- The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there…
- Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may be…
- God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
- Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless…
- That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.
- The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look…
- The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.
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