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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The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

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What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

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I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

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Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

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Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth.

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An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

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There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before. Not only man puts things in a row, but things belong in a row.

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Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

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Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.

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A man in debt is so far a slave.

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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

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In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.

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Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

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But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.

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