Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Art Quotes, Expression Quotes

Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.

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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

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And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance, or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them, and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover.

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Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair-all these we never made; we found them ready-made; we but quote from them. What would remain to me if this art of appropriation were derogatory to genius? Every one of my writings has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things; wise and foolish have brought me, without suspecting it, the offering of their thoughts, faculties, and experience. My work is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of nature. It bears the name of Goethe.

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Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.

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I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?

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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

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For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

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The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

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Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

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In good writing, words become one with things.

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

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Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

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Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.

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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

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Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.

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The health of the eye demands a horizon.

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Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

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