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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.
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Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!
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The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.
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Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.
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The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.
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Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.
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Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him?
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It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.
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There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.
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Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
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We must be our own before we can be another's.
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Every sweet has its sour every evil its good.
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Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The universe is the externalization of the soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
