Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Sculpture Quotes, Form Quotes

As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

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Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented a practical difficulty to any man,--never darkened across any man's road, who did not go out of his way to seek them. These are the soul's mumps, and measles, and whooping- coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe a cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies.

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If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

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That which builds is better than that which is built.

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Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear.

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Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.

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Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

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The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.

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If the race is good, so is the place.

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

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Be brave enough to do the loving thing.

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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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Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State.

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Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

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Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

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It is time to be old To take in sail.

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There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

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The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.

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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

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