EMERSON QUOTE-FOUNTAIN

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Here is the fountain of action and of thought.


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EMERSON QUOTE-SHARE CAUSE

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We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them
as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause


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EMERSON QUOTE-JOYFUL LOYALTY

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The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king,


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EMERSON QUOTE-SQUALID CONTENTMENT

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Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid
contentment of the times,

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EMERSON QUOTE-EPHEMERIS

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.Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always
ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day

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EMERSON QUOTE-SCORN EYES

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Greatness appeals to the future. If I can be firm enough to-day to do
right, and scorn eyes, I must have done so much right before as to
defend me now.

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EMERSON QUOTE-SINGLY

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Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now.

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EMERSON QUOTE-GENUINE EXPLANATION

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Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other
genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.


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EMERSON QUOTE-MISUNDERSTOOD

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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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EMERSON QUOTE-MEMORY CORPSE

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Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict
somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you
should contradict yourself; what then?


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EMERSON QUOTE-REVERENCE ORBIT

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a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have
no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are
loath to disappoint them.

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EMERSON QUOTE-SOUR SWEET

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but the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no
deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and a newspaper
directs



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EMERSON QUOTE-NONCONFORMITY WHIP

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For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure


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EMERSON QUOTE-COMPANY SMILE

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the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at
ease in answer to conversation which does not interest us.
.


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EMERSON QUOTE-PRAISE FACE

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I mean "the foolish face of praise,"
.


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EMERSON QUOTE-PRISON EQUIP

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Meantime nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the
party to which we adhere.
.


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EMERSON QUOTE-EVERY

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Their every truth is not quite true.


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EMERSON QUOTE-LIE AUTHOR

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This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of
a few lies, but false in all particulars.


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EMERSON QUOTE-REINFORCE

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Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.


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EMERSON QUOTE-ARDUOUS

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This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may
serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.


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EMERSON QUOTE-CONCERN

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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think

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EMERSON QUOTE-LIFE SPECTACLE

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My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it
should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it
should be glittering and unsteady.

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EMERSON QUOTE-PENANCE

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Their virtues are penances. .
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EMERSON QUOTE-EXTENUATION

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Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world

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EMERSON QUOTE-VIRTUE EXCEPTION

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Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule.
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EMERSON QUOTE-BOUGHT AND SOLD

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There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am
bought and sold; for them I will go to prison, if need be;

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EMERSON QUOTE-GENIUS CALL

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I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.


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EMERSON QUOTE-GOOD EDGE

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Your goodness must have some edge to it, — else it is none.

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EMERSON QUOTE-HANDSOME AFFECTATION

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but truth is handsomer than the affectation of love.

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EMERSON QUOTE-RUDE TRUTH

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I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

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EMERSON QUOTE-TRANSFERABLE GOOD

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Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this;
the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what
is against it.
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EMERSON QUOTE-SACRED LAW

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

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EMERSON QUOTE-CONFORMITY AVERSION

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The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its
aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
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EMERSON QUOTE-JOINTSTOCK

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Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the
better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the
liberty and culture of the eater.

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EMERSON QUOTE-AFFECTION

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whose affections must now enter into his account

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EMERSON QUOTE-JAIL CLAP

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But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.

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EMERSON QUOTE-EYE RAY

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Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much
impression on him, and another none. This sculpture in the memory is
not without preestablished harmony. The eye was placed where one ray
should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray.
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EMERSON QUOTE-UNIVERSAL CONVICTION

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Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for
the inmost in due time becomes the outmost

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Emerson QUOTE -personal genius!

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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in
your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.
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