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Language Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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…
- Language is the archives of history.
- The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical…
- No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so…
- I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
- The language of the street is always strong.
- Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
- 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…
- I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
- Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
- Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the…
- We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in…
- History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language…
- The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.
- By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to…
- The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us…
- As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
- There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
- Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
- Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things…
- Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead…
- Language is fossil Poetry.
- Eyes...They speak all languages.
- Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
- When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
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