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Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."

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

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"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."

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"To be great is to be misunderstood."

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"What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it."

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"The less government we have the better."

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"It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age."

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"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius."

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"So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours."

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"Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints."

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"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty."

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"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty."

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