Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Book Quotes, Men Quotes

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

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We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

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All mankind love a lover.

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You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.

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Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.

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Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

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Thoughts rule the world.

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In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power ofbeing greatly useful.

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I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

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Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

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There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

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In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,--no more. I cannot get it nearer to me.

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We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.

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If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.

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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

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It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood. . . .

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For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.

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There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

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Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

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