Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Hate Quotes, Writing Quotes

All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment. I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom. Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

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It is defeat which educates us.

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Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

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In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

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When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.

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Thought is the seed of action.

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Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.

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The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

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How much finer things are in composition than alone.

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How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position; they fly into place by the action of the muscles. On this art of nature all our arts rely.

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Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

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Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.

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When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

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There is no one who does not exaggerate!

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I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.

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A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

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Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

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Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

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An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

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Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we havehad our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.

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