Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

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The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

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Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.

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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

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Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

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You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made And people whose skin is a different shade.

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The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway. This time, like all time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.

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Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.

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Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.

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It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

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For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

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We never touch but at points.

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If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.

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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.

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