Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Book Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

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God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us to search our souls for the meaning of the mysteries described in ancient books.

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No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.

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Books are the best type of the influence of the past.

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Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him / Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him.

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It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.

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A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

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A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

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If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself.

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Every burned book enlightens the world.

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The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is like a soul, and that every soul should have its own body.

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Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.

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Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

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The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.

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They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.

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The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.

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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

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I should have written books instead of reading them.

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When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

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