Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Writing Quotes, Air Quotes

For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.

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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

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But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.

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The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.

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You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself

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Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.

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I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.

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Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.

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The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.

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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

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There is no one who does not exaggerate!

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The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

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A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

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Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished of his proportion; and the stricter theunion, the smaller and the more pitiful he is. But leave him alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul, he will go up and down doing the works of a true member, and, to the astonishment of all, the work will be done with concert, though no man spoke.

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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

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There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

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All men in the abstract are just and good.

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Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

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We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

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The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

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