Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.”

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“Always do what you are afraid to do.”

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“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”

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“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.”

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“Come out of your warm, angular house, resounding with few voices, into the chill, grand, instantaneous night, with such a Presence as a full moon in the clouds.”

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“Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.”

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“Men are what their mothers made them.”

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“If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.”

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“Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.”

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“Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, all flock to their aid.”

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