Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Two Quotes

The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

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We read often with as much talent as we write.

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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

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When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

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Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

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God has delegated himself to a million deputies.

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The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.

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Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

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Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.

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Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is of no use to show us more planets and systems. We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify.

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We may be partial, but Fate is not.

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As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.

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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science, and such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them. These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a godlike ease and power.

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A good indignation makes an excellent speech.

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We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.

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The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.

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Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.

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The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.

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