Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Becoming Quotes

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

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The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be.

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Man's life is a progress, not a station.

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Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

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Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.

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It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance. Nobody wishes bad manners. We must have loyalty and character.

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We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

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Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.

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The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritualcreation, and not in augmenting animal existence. Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation; nor unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.

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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

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Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

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What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.

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If a man owns land, the land owns him.

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A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.

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In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely, the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.

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What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.

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