Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Ideas Quotes

What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.

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If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

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Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

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I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

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Shallow men believe in luck.

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I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.

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Cunning is strength withheld.

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The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself in images. A man conversing in earnest, if he watch his intellectual processes, will find that always a material image, more or less luminous, arises in his mind, contemporaneous with every thought, which furnishes the vestment of the thought.... This imagery is spontaneous. It is the blending of experience with the present action of the mind. It is proper creation.

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Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

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Some will always be above others.

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When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

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Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

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O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretch'd beneath the pines When the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and pride of man, At the Sophist's schools, and the learned clan; For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

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