Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Apology Quotes

My life is not an apology, but a life.

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Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.

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Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

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The virtue in most request is conformity.

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Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!

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Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is fire and horse and health and holiday. At least, I find that any success in my work has the effect on my spirits of all these.

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Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

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Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.

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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.

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Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

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I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.

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You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

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

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London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

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The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.

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Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.

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Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.

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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

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Miracle comes to the miraculous, not to the arithmetician.

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