Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Believe Quotes, Reading Quotes

Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.

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Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.

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Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

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Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.

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Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

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Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.

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Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.

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The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.

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We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath ever moment....One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zsig zag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficent distance and it straightens itslef to the average tendency.

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Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

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The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

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Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

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When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.

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The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

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We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought forthe morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own.

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As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

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The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

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All vigor is contagious.

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