Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Writing Quotes, Men Quotes

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

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It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.

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We find in life exactly what we put into it

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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

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Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

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Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.

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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

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We go to Europe to be Americanized.

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Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches to the door and to the first stair you ascent, that this is the road to the stars.

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To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine men.

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I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

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If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

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Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

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People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

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I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy.

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We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own. If it could be satisfactorily shown that they esteemed it authorized and transmitted forever, that does not settle the question for us. We know how inveterately they were attached to their Jewish prejudices, and how often even the influence of Christ failed to enlarge their views. On every other subject succeeding times have learned to form a judgement more in accordance with the spirit of Christianity than was the practice of the early ages.

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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

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Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

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There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

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Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the reproduction in finer form, of all our havings.

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