Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Art Quotes, Book Quotes

We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world, through a few brains. The arts and institutions of men are created out of thought. The powers that make the capitalist are metaphysical, the force of method and force of will makes trade, and builds towns.

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You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.

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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

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A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

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It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

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This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

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Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

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Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.

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Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

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When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

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The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

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If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts, you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer's home. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

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The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.

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Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

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We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.

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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

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It is defeat which educates us.

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Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

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All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

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