Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Choices Quotes

The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.

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I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

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A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

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But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.

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The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

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We have more than we use.

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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

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To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

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there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

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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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Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.

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The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

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Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

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Two touch the string, The harp is dumb.

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If the race is good, so is the place.

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A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

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Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

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The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

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