Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Suicide Quotes, Imitation Quotes

In imitation is a bit suicide.

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This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

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But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

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The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

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Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.

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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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There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him, that thus he is an overmatch for all antagonists that could combine against him.

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We never touch but at points.

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Do not follow where the path may lead.

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It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

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Frankness invites frankness.

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Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground of other reading and hearing-that in large sense, one would say there is no pure originality. All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

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The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

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...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right.

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The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

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Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands; To each they offer gifts after his will, Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all; I, in my pleached garden watched the pomp Forgot my morning wishes, hastily Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day Turned and departed silent. I too late Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.

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Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

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