Building Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

12 Building quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Even with a modest selection, Emerson’s thoughts on building capture his belief in self‑reliance and the transformative power of effort. These twelve lines give a quick, yet resonant, taste of his timeless perspective.

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No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

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If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes…

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Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be…

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The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on…

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The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the…

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The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into…

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Moller, in his Essay on Architecture, taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to…

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Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously; all must be…

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There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go…

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Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when…

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The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade,…

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You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as…

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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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The order of things consents to virtue.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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