Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Art Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living.

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Life has a way of demanding that you live it.

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I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.

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You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.

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No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.

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Insist upon yourself. Be original.

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So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head.

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Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

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The poem is a confession of faith.

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Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. When that is spoken which has a right to be spoken, the chatter and the criticism will stop. Set down nothing that will not help somebody.

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Accuracy is essential to beauty.

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Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

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Pure by impure is not seen.

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There is always a best way of doing everything.

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The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.

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Our moods do not believe in each other.

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Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

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Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

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The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

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As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.

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