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I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.

By Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to...

By Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculpture and painting...

By Ralph Waldo Emerson
I may as well say, what all men feel, that whilst our every amiable and very innocent representatives and senators at Washington are accomplis...

By Ralph Waldo Emerson
I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishe...

By Ralph Waldo Emerson
I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as ...

By Ralph Waldo Emerson
I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each of these works...

By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in many materials to ...

By Ralph Waldo Emerson
How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false po...

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He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impe...

By Ralph Waldo Emerson
He serveth the servant, The brave he loves amain;...

By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and our A...

By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers...

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For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the asp...

By Ralph Waldo Emerson
For, the experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet.

By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,—a total perversion of opinion; society is ...

By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear, Craft, and Avarice Cannot rear a State.

By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom's secret wilt thou know?— Counsel not with flesh and blood;...

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Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flow, flow the waves hated, Accursed, adored, The waves of mutation: No anchorage is.

By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing—to do just that; be it ...

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Earth laughs in flowers, to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs;...

By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,—to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill,...

By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.

By Ralph Waldo Emerson
But in a hundred high schools and colleges, this warfare against common-sense still goes on. Four, or six, or ten years, the pupil is parsing ...

By Ralph Waldo Emerson
But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

By Ralph Waldo Emerson
But the heart refuses to be imprisoned; in its first and narrowest pulses it already tends outward with a vast force and to immense and innume...

By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can rules or tutors educate The semigod whom we await?...

By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,—the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead. The second ...

By Ralph Waldo Emerson