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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the wayside as we walk; in a thought which revises our entire manner of life, and says,
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the world's eye.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. Science
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson