EMERSON QUOTE-A foolish consistency(my fav emerson quote)

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines
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#EMERSON #QUOTES #foolish
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MY POSTNOTE
This quote, i first heard it in MY FAVORITE MOVIE called
"next stop wonderland"
in this movie, two characters discuss this quote...
and this quote by far also is one of my favorite quotes of emerson as well.

EMERSON QUOTE-lengthened shadow

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An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism, of
the Hermit Antony; 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 very easily into
the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.
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#EMERSON #QUOTES #institution

EMERSON QUOTE-foreign prayer

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Prayer looks abroad and asks for some foreign addition to come through
some foreign virtue, and loses itself in endless mazes of natural and
supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous. Prayer that craves a
particular commodity, — any thing less than all good, — is vicious.
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#EMERSON #QUOTES #foreign_prayer

EMERSON QUOTE-mean prayer

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But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft.
It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness.
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#EMERSON #QUOTES #mean

EMERSON QUOTE-regret prayers

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Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the
want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will
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#EMERSON #QUOTES #discontent

EMERSON QUOTE-sympathy crying

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Our sympathy is just as base. We come to them who weep foolishly,
and sit down and cry for company, instead of imparting to them truth
and health in rough electric shocks, putting them once more in
communication with their own reason.
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#EMERSON #QUOTES #crying

EMERSON QUOTE-prayer and creed

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As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a
disease of the intellect.
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#EMERSON #QUOTES #creed

EMERSON QUOTE-pupil and the botany girl

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The pupil takes the same delight in subordinating every thing to the
new terminology, as a girl who has just learned botany in seeing a new
earth and new seasons thereby. It will happen for a time, that the
pupil will find his intellectual power has grown by the study of his
master's mind.
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#EMERSON #QUOTES #pupil

EMERSON QUOTE-light break in

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They cannot imagine how you aliens have any right to see, — how you
can see; 'It must be somehow that you stole the light from us.' They
do not yet perceive, that light, unsystematic, indomitable, will break
into any cabin, even into theirs.
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#EMERSON #QUOTES #light

EMERSON QUOTE-travel and sad-self

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Travelling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us
the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I
can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk,
embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples,
and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting,
identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I
affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not
intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.
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#EMERSON #QUOTES #travel

EMERSON QUOTE-vagabond intellect

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The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters
restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at
home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the
mind?
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#EMERSON #QUOTES #vagabond

EMERSON QUOTE-insist

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Insist on yourself; never imitate.
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#EMERSON #QUOTES #insist

EMERSON QUOTE-borrow

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The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.
Shakspeare will never be made by the study of Shakspeare.
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#EMERSON #QUOTES #borrow

EMERSON QUOTE-abide

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Abide in the simple and noble regions of thy life, obey thy heart, and
thou shalt reproduce the Foreworld again.
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#EMERSON #QUOTES #abide

EMERSON QUOTE-advance recede

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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other.
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#EMERSON #QUOTES #recede

EMERSON QUOTE-old instincts

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For every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires
new arts, and loses old instincts
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#EMERSON #QUOTES #give

EMERSON QUOTE-coach feet

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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
He is supported on crutches, but lacks so much support of muscle.

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#EMERSON #QUOTES #coach

EMERSON QUOTE-solistice equinox

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He has a fine Geneva watch, but he fails of the skill to tell the hour
by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of
the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know
a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe; the equinox he
knows as little; and the whole bright calendar of the year is without
a dial in his mind.


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#EMERSON #QUOTES #alamanac

EMERSON QUOTE-society wave

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Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is
composed does not. The same particle does not rise from the valley to
the ridge. Its unity is only phenomenal. The persons who make up a
nation to-day, next year die, and their experience with them.


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#EMERSON #QUOTES #phenomenal_unity

EMERSON QUOTE-want of self reliance

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And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments
which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

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#EMERSON #QUOTES #want

EMERSON QUOTE-slavish

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Our dependence on these foreign goods leads us to our slavish respect
for numbers.

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#EMERSON #QUOTES #slavish

EMERSON QUOTE-head,feet

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He who knows that power is inborn, that he is weak because he has
looked for good out of him and elsewhere, and so perceiving, throws
himself unhesitatingly on his thought, instantly rights himself,
stands in the erect position, commands his limbs, works miracles; just
as a man who stands on his feet is stronger than a man who stands on
his head.
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#EMERSON #QUOTES #erect

EMERSON QUOTE-favorable

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A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick, or
the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event,
raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you.
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#EMERSON #QUOTES #favorable

EMERSON QUOTE-peace triumph

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Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing
can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.


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#EMERSON #QUOTES #peace