Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Lying Quotes, Criticism Quotes

We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.

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Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

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The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.

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If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

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Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.

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The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

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Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way we are strong, by borrowing the might of the elements. The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day and cost us nothing.

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First be a good animal.

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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

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All great men come out of the middle classes.

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The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

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There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

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In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

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You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself

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The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

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Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

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All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

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People say law but they mean wealth.

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

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