Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Believe Quotes, Reading Quotes

Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.

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The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

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I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

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A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

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It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.

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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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The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

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Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

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Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.

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Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth.

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There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

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Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

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Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.

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The less government we have the better.

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Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.

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The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas.

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I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

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If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!

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Nature hates calculators.

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