Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
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Language is the archives of history … Language is fossil poetry.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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It is time to be old, To take in sail: - The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: 'No more!
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared 'that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow'.
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Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.
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The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.