Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Country Quotes, Selfish Quotes

The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.

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I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

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I am become a transparent eyeball.

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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

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Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

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But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary and talk down to the young. Let them then become organs of the Holy Ghost; let them be lovers; let them behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted, their wrinkles smoothed, they are perfumed again with hope and power.

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Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.

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The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

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It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

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The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.

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Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

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How much of human life is lost in waiting.

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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

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The hero is suffered to be himself.

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