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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
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 (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Wit makes it's own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known it's satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, landor replies: Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all - friends? (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? Our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar's dinner, from a hundred charities? (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber of your body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats and clothes you have worn out (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into chaos and old night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Tis a queer life, and the only humor proper to it seems quiet astonishment. Others laugh, weep, sell, or proselyte. I admire (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)