Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Good criticism is very rare and always precious.

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The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought.

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Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.

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For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

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The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

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Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence; without losing his reverence; let him learn that he is here, not to work, but to be worked upon; and that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause.

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Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast.

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My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.

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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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Society does not love its unmaskers.

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The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.

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All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

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The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.

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It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

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The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.

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The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

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We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

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Commonsense is the wick of the candle.

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Life has a way of demanding that you live it.

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