Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Book Quotes, Judging Quotes

It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

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Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.

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The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'

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As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

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There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

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For beauty is God's handwriting...A nd, thank God for it as a cup of His blessing.

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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

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Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?

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In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

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In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

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Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

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Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

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Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own; but when they see it proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration.

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Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.

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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

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Men are respectable only as they respect.

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A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.

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Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

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The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

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I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he] threatens his whole threat "I will not love you."

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