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Write Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture…
- It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to…
- It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to…
- We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.
- The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
- Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see no reason why…
- I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.
- Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience, if we would…
- When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.
- The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is…
- One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day…
- We often read with as much talent as we write.
- It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or…
- Who is he that shall control me? Why may not I act and speak and write and think with entire freedom? What am I to…
- For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.
- Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
- Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
- To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and…
- If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house…
- The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will…
- Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one…
- Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that…
- For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air…
- But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where…
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