Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Quality
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.
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Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.
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The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
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We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.
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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic.
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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
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Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.
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The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.
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Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.
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This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.
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But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.
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Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven to earth, of matter to mind, of the part to the whole, is our guide. As there is a science of stars, called astronomy; and science of quantities, called mathematics; a science of qualities, called chemistry; so there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.
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Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
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No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.
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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
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A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.
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Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an
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The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.
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A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.
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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.
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The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.
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A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world.
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The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.
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In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.
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Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.
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Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.
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The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
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