Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Greatness
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The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
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Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future.
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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
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The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going
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Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.
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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul. . Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man.
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Every great man is unique.
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.
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A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
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I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.
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Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.
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