Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Lying Quotes, Past Quotes

There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said.

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Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.

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The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties.

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We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

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Every reform was once a private opinion.

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Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

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The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

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I like man, but not men.

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But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

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The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.

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But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary and talk down to the young. Let them then become organs of the Holy Ghost; let them be lovers; let them behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted, their wrinkles smoothed, they are perfumed again with hope and power.

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Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

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Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.

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An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

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The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

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...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!

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No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.

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If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

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Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

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