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title: "23 Creation Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson"
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> [The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-yankee-is-one-who-if-he-once-gets-his-teeth-set-on-a-thing-all/)

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> [Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/love-of-beauty-is-taste-the-creation-of-beauty-is-art/)

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> [The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-creation-of-a-thousand-forests-is-in-one-acorn/)

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> [Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/nature-is-a-rag-merchant-who-works-up-every-shred-and-ort-and-end-2/)

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> [A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-friend-may-be-nature-s-most-magnificent-creation/)

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> [A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-is-the-whole-encyclopedia-of-facts-the-creation-of-a-thousand/)

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> [In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-our-fine-arts-not-imitation-but-creation-is-the-aim-the-details/)

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> [The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-man-who-has-seen-the-rising-moon-break-out-of-the-clouds-at/)

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> [Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/ever-fresh-the-broad-creation-a-divine-improvisation-from-the-heart/)

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> [When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/when-science-is-learned-in-love-and-its-powers-are-wielded-by-love/)

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> [A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-fact-is-the-end-or-last-issue-of-spirit-the-visible-creation-is-the/)

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> [Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/everything-in-creation-has-its-appointed-painter-or-poet-and-remains/)

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> [The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-use-of-natural-history-is-to-give-us-aid-in-supernatural-history/)

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> [“It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/it-is-not-metres-but-a-metre-making-argument-that-makes-a-poem-a/)

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> [Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/is-not-prayer-also-a-study-of-truth-a-sally-of-the-soul-into-the/)

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> [Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/art-is-the-need-to-create-but-in-its-essence-immense-and-universal-it/)

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> [All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/all-men-are-in-some-degree-impressed-by-the-face-of-the-world-some/)

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> [Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/undoubtedly-we-have-no-questions-to-ask-which-are-unanswerable-we/)

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> [Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/nature-is-a-rag-merchant-who-works-up-every-shred-and-ort-and-end/)

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> [Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; &amp; therein is human destiny, not in longevity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/everything-teaches-transition-transference-metamorphosis-therein-is/)

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> [Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/shakespeare-possesses-the-power-of-subordinating-nature-for-the/)

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> [The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-moment-our-discourse-rises-above-the-ground-line-of-familiar/)

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> [Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/nothing-divine-dies-all-good-is-eternally-reproductive-the-beauty-of/)

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## Other authors on Creation

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-pope-francis-75890.jpg) Pope Francis 41 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creation/pope-francis/)
- [Neale Donald Walsch 34 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creation/neale-donald-walsch/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-wendell-berry-94730.jpg) Wendell Berry 29 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creation/wendell-berry/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 28 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creation/frederick-lenz/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-albert-einstein-10494.jpg) Albert Einstein 28 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creation/albert-einstein/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-jaggi-vasudev-45888.jpg) Jaggi Vasudev 21 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creation/jaggi-vasudev/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sunday-adelaja-87912.jpg) Sunday Adelaja 20 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creation/sunday-adelaja/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-victor-hugo-93504.jpg) Victor Hugo 18 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creation/victor-hugo/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-bryant-mcgill-108.jpg) Bryant McGill 18 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creation/bryant-mcgill/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-paine-90547.jpg) Thomas Paine 16 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creation/thomas-paine/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rajneesh-77002.jpg) Rajneesh 16 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creation/rajneesh/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-pope-benedict-xvi-75881.jpg) Pope Benedict XVI 16 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creation/pope-benedict-xvi/)

## More by Ralph Waldo Emerson

> [The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-history-of-mankind-interests-us-only-as-it-exhibits-a-steady-gain/)

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> [If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-we-will-not-interfere-with-our-thought-but-will-act-entirely-or/)

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> [If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-there-is-any-period-one-would-desire-to-be-born-in-is-it-not-the/)

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> [A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-cannot-speak-but-he-judges-himself-with-his-will-or-against-his/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/consideration-is-the-soil-in-which-wisdom-may-be-expected-to-grow-and/)

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> [“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-then-creative-reading-as-well-as-creative-writing-when-the/)

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> [The order of things consents to virtue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-order-of-things-consents-to-virtue/)

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> [Life only avails, not the having lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/life-only-avails-not-the-having-lived/)

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> [Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/another-success-is-the-post-office-with-its-educating-energy/)

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> [A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-child-reminds-us-that-playtime-is-an-essential-part-of-our-daily/)

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> [No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/no-man-can-be-criticised-but-by-a-greater-than-he-do-not-then-read/)

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> [Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/coal-lay-in-ledges-under-the-ground-since-the-flood-until-a-laborer/)

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> [I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-am-therefore-i-had-nothing-better-to-do-than-to-think/)

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> [In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-a-library-we-are-surrounded-by-many-hundreds-of-dear-friends-but/)

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> [The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-compensations-of-calamity-are-made-apparent-to-the-understanding/)

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