Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Roots Quotes, Intellectual Quotes

Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

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As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.

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Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

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I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each ofthese works an act of invention, an intellectual step, or short series of steps taken; that act or step is the spiritual act; all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.

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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.

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A little praise goes a great ways.

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Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

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The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.

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The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.

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When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

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Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

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When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

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All great successes are the triumph of persistence.

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Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

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The highest end of government is the culture of men.

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A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.

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We expect a great man to be a good reader.

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The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

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Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

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