Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Book Quotes, Parent Quotes

There are books... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

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The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure.

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In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.

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How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

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In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

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Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

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Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

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Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number.

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Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

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Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.

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A man is known by the books he reads.

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Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.

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Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

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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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It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

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There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

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