Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Individuality
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
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An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox, Methodism of Wesley, abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man, then, know his worth, and keep things under his feet.
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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
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Our expenses are all for conformity.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.
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A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
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Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
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God enters by a private door into every individual.
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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.
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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
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Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.
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