Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.

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Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.

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But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.

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The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a house to stand.

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There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

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We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

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The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

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Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

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No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.

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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

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That man is idle who can do something better.

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It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.

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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

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There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.

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Good criticism is very rare and always precious.

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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

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We never touch but at points.

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What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

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Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected - that he can paint what has occurred and what must occur, with such clearness to a company, as if they saw it done before their eyes. By leading their thought he leads their will, and can make them do gladly what an hour ago they would not believe that they could be led to do at all.

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We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

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