Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Art Quotes

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

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The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

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God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.

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The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

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All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

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The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

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Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

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It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

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A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it.

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

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In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self- surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.

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If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.

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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

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Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

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Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.

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No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

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Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.

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