Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Photography Quotes, Writing Quotes

"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography; they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try."

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An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

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Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.

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Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

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You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, You've got to be taught, from year to year, It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear, You've got to be carefully taught.

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All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

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Knowledge is the antidote to fear

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Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.

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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

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Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

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

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Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.

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When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.

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Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

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Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

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The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

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The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

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We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

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