Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Book Quotes, Library Quotes

Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.

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Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

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A man is what he thinks about all day long.

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The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution, which work with more energy than we believe, whilst we depend on artificial restraints.

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My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

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If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

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The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.

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Wherever there is power there is age.

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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

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A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

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Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

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Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.

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As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

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The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!

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When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

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The pest of society is egotists.

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If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.

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Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

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The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.

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