Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Success Quotes, Memories Quotes

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. A man who is not happy in company, cannot find any word in his memory that will fit the occasion; all his information is a little impertinent. A man who is happy there, finds in every turn of the conversation occasions for the introduction of what he has to say. The favorites of society are able men, and of more spirit than wit, who have no uncomfortable egotism, but who exactly fill the hour and the company, contended and contenting.

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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

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I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

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Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.

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We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.

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Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths Whence a smokeless incense breathes.

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The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

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Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes, and affect a plain and poor exterior.

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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

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An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.

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By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

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A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

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Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

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By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.

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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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My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.

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Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

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Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.

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