Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Criticism Quotes, Pieces Quotes

Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

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I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

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For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

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The health of the eye demands a horizon.

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Every thought is public, Every nook is wide; Thy gossips spread each whisper, And the gods from side to side.

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Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

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When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.

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You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you. Far otherwise; your silence utters very loud: you have no oracle to speak, no wisdom to offer, and your fellow men have learned that you cannot help them. Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice? We would be well to do likewise.

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Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

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In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,--no more. I cannot get it nearer to me.

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My life is superficial, takes no root in the deep world; I ask, When shall I die, and be relieved of the responsibility of seeinga Universe which I do not use? I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight, this fever-glow for a benign climate.

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The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

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I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.

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The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.

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We have more than we use.

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Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

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When it is darkest, we can see the stars.

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Pride ruined the angels.

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When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.

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