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Books Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that…
- A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes,…
- We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred…
- We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.
- Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question…
- The virtue of books is to be readable.
- I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use…
- In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence,…
- I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human…
- Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better…
- Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the…
- The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
- 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…
- All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these…
- Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.
- I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals,…
- Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.
- The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.
- The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench…
- The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any…
- Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.
- In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.
- Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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