Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Art Quotes, Creativity Quotes

The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.

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Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order, and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.

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Pictures must not be too picturesque.

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My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.

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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

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My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

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Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

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Look out! Behind you!

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Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.

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Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

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The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

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Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores; And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse.

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

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The soul circumscribes all things.

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A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

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In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

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It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist

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Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

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Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

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