Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Play Quotes, Poetry Quotes

Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

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My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

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The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.

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A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.

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The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

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Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.

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Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.

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A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

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Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong, Yet beautiful as is the rose in June, Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July; Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds, Purger of earth, and medicine of men; Creating a sweet climate by my breath, Washing out harms and griefs from memory, And, in my mathematic ebb and flow, Giving a hint of that which changes not.

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Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.

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As soon as there is life there is danger.

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The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

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Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

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Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

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The spirit only can teach. Not any profane man, not any sensual, not any liar, not any slave can teach, but only he can give, whohas; he only can create, who is. The man on whom the soul descends, through whom the soul speaks, alone can teach. Courage, piety, love, wisdom, can teach; and every man can open his door to these angels, and they shall bring him the gift of tongues. But the man who aims to speak as books enable, as synods use, as the fashion guides, and as interest commands, babbles. Let him hush.

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Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

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