Ralph Waldo Emerson

(117 votes)   By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(117 votes)   He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(117 votes)   Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(116 votes)   Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(116 votes)   No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(116 votes)   The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(116 votes)   Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(115 votes)   Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(114 votes)   All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(114 votes)   The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(113 votes)   The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(113 votes)   There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(112 votes)   I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(112 votes)   If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(112 votes)   Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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