Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Teacher Quotes, Fall Quotes

Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,--one as much as another.

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Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.

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If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone.

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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

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Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

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Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.

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There is always a best way of doing everything.

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

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I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.

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We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

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In imitation is a bit suicide.

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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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Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.

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We find in life exactly what we put into it

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When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.

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Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

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Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

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Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

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