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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man’s (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
We are as much informed of a writer’s genius by what he selects as by what he originates (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I’m not afraid of falling into my inkpot (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Don’t make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)
If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting (Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes)