Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 58

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design - and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
From Washington, proverbially the city of distances, through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations. View quote
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'Tis the good reader that makes the good book in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart. View quote
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Books are the best of things if well used if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. View quote
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Imitation cannot go above its model. View quote
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Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow. View quote
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Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread, and meat. View quote
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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence. View quote
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Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song. View quote
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The true poem is the poet's mind. View quote
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It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page. View quote
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The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, And not down aspires and not despairs. View quote
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In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity. View quote
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The pleasure of life is according to the man who lives it, and not according to the work or the place. View quote
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Do your work, but do your thing. View quote
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The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him. View quote
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One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail. View quote
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The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books and I think no chair is so much needed. View quote
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Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech. View quote
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Who can ... guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Truth is too simple for us we do not like those who unmask our illusions. View quote
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There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art. View quote
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Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature. View quote
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I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals. View quote
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