Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Reading Quotes, Two Quotes

Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground of other reading and hearing-that in large sense, one would say there is no pure originality. All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

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Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.

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I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.

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picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.

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Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle.

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Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

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I feel a special kinship with our military personnel, veterans, and their families. After all, two of my decisions sent them into harm's way.

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Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action.

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Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

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In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and unnatural condition. At all events we may firstly observe in living creatures both a despotical and a constitutional rule; for the soul rules the body with a despotical rule, whereas the intellect rules the appetites with a constitutional and royal rule. And it is clear that the rule of the soul over the body, and of the mind and the rational element over the passionate, is natural and expedient; whereas the equality of the two or the rule of the inferior is always hurtful.

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Sir, when two people have the extraordinary quality of this state, words are not necessary. Where that quality of love exists, words become unnecessary. There is instant communication.

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A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

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Republicans in Congress have two choices here: They can act responsibly, and pay America’s bills; or they can act irresponsibly, and put America through another economic crisis. But they will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy.

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To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.

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Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.

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The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges : the pox and Christianity.

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Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials -- they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think -- rather than letting you figure it out on your own.

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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.

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Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity. The one was founded upon spirituality, the other upon materialism; the one upon transcendentalism, the other upon realism.

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For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

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