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What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
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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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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The highest Beauty should be plain set.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.
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What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a fortune and beget children whose end is likewise to make a fortune, but it is, in few words, that he should explore himself.
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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.
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It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.
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Every stoic was a stoic but in Christendom where is the Christian?
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The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
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Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?
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The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.
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Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
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Tis the good reader that makes the good book in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.
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To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be madeby the reception of beautiful sentiments.
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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
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Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them they will never forget it.
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Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
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An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
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Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I quote another man's saying unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.
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