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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; it seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rings and jewels are not gifts but apologies for gifts. The only true gift is a portion of yourself
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson