Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Wall Quotes, Rejection Quotes

Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. When that is spoken which has a right to be spoken, the chatter and the criticism will stop. Set down nothing that will not help somebody.

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Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

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God enters by a private door into every individual.

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We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

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The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

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It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

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The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

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Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;--and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.

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All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.

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The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.

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The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

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What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

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Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

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Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

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There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

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