Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Music Quotes, Men Quotes

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

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Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?

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Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter - if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?

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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

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That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

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Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

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The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.

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When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

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I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

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But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.

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I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

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Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

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American mind a wilderness of opportunities.

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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

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The inmost in due time becomes the outmost.

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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

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Blessed are those who have no talent!

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