Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The student is to read history actively and not passively.

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The life of truth is cold.

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

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It is a luxury to be understood.

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Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

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Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said.

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Imitation cannot go above its model.

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A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.

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My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.

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The soul knows no persons.

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I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

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Nothing can be preserved that is not good.

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The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

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There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

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We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.

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Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in the river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.

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For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

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I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.

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All promise outruns performance.

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Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

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