Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.

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Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.

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If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail--and you eventually will if you stick to the job--they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.

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Test of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove; Never was poet, of late or of yore, Who was not tremulous with love-lore.

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You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

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Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

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Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

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Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

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Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.

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A little praise goes a great ways.

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People say law but they mean wealth.

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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

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In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some dangler, who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody. But through every clause and part of speech of the right book I meet the eyes of the most determined men; his force and terror inundate every word: the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble,--can go far and live long.

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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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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

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The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.

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The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.

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Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.

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