Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Art Quotes, Book Quotes

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. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws; nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs, by imitation.

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When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we can still take pleasure in reading it to a companion. To him it has all the graces of novelty.

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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me. While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration. Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths.

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The Navy is very old and very wise.

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Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.

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In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.

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Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.

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Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.

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I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

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I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book

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When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.

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The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

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In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

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I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

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It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

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Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

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