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Literature Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we…
- A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.
- Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
- In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and…
- Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
- Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast
- Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.
- Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized…
- Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?
- I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
- It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled…
- Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with…
- In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.
- Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature
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