Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Book Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

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Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

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Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

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Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

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Thoughts rule the world.

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Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?

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Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

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Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in many materials to many temporary ends. Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakspeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. Painting was called "silent poetry," and poetry "speaking painting." The laws of each art are convertible into the laws of every other.

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Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

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Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

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Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

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Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

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Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.

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A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

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There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

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All the devils respect virtue.

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It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.

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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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