Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Book Quotes, Retrospect Quotes

Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.

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For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud - a rainbow... For each shadow - the sun... For each parting - sweet memories when sorrow is done.

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Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

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A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated. The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge. He has it who can use it. As soon as our accumulation overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,— congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation.

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A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.

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See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

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The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.

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Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

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The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.

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Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

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The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean.

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The scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to selfish ends. He was a profane person,and became a showman, turning his gifts to marketable use, and not to his own sustenance and growth. It was found that the intellect could be independently developed, that is, in separation from the man, as any single organ can be invigorated, and the result was monstrous.

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As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.

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No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

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The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.

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You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective.

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If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

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Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.

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Good criticism is very rare and always precious.

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