Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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If a man own land, the land owns him.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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You must read Plato. But you must hold him at arm's length and say, 'Plato, you have delighted and edified mankind for two thousand years. What have you to say to me?'
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Children are all foreigners.
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Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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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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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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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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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
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Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.
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'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible