Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.
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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.
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For the prevision is allied Unto the thing so signified; Or say, the foresight that awaits Is the same Genius that creates.
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People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
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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.
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Reality is a sliding door.
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
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I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.
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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
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Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.
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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.
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Fear not, then, thou child infirm, There's no god dare wrong a worm.
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Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life?
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.
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There is always safety in valor.
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Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
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A mollusk is a cheap edition of man with a suppression of the costlier illustrations, designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an oyster-bank or among the seaweed.