Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Art Quotes, Pain Quotes

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

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The world is his who can see through its pretension.

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Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.

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Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.

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The life of man is a self-evolving circle.

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The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

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It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

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What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

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Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate; he will not lift his hand to save his life; he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth, with hope, courage, fertile in resources, and keen for daring adventure.

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I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life.

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

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Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

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Every hero becomes a bore at last.

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Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.

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What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

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When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

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A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

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