Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 51

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought. View quote
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The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary. View quote
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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man. View quote
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The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation when memory came, it was experience when mind Acted, it was knowledge when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought. View quote
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All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair. View quote
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There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Platonever enough to pay for an edition of his works yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons, as if God brought them written in his hand. View quote
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A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word. View quote
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In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold. View quote
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What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived. View quote
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Everything runs to excess every good quality is noxious if unmixed. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. View quote
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. View quote
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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim. View quote
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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours. View quote
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He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. View quote
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They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear. View quote
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The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics. View quote
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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. View quote
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It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. View quote
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall. Don't bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmatives. View quote
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A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised and shocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted. View quote
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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart. View quote
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That which builds is better than that which is built. View quote
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