Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Reading Quotes, Library Quotes

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

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The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

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And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

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People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

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Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

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Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.

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Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.

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Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting again.

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The only reward of virtue is virtue.

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I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

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A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination, or in the realm of intuitions and duty.

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The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

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Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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Be an opener of doors

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And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.

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A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.

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We pass for what we are.

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