Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Art Quotes, Men Quotes

What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.

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The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of.

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Some people are born very far from home.

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Life too near paralyses art.

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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

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By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

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Pictures must not be too picturesque.

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Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.

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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

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Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

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If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

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

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The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

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The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

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The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

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If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.

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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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The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.

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