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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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American Poet, Writer, Philosopher May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882

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Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand..."
When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and..."
There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the..."
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Books are for nothing but to inspire"
Books are for nothing but to inspire Ralph Waldo Emerson
All writing is by the grace of God. People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. In these sentences that you show me, I can find no beauty, for I see death in every clause and every word. There is a fossil or a mummy character which pervades this book. The best sepulchers, the vastest catacombs, Thebes and Cairo, Pyramids, are sepulchers to me. I like gardens and nurseries. Give me initiative, spermatic, prophesying, man-making words. Ralph Waldo Emerson
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language--not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books are the best type of influence of the past...Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. Ralph Waldo Emerson
People go out to look at sunrises and sunsets who do not recognize their own, quietly and happily, but know that it is foreign to them. As they do by books, so they quote the sunset and the star, and do not make them theirs. Worse yet, they live as foreigners in a world of truth, and quote thoughts, and thus disown them. Quotation confesses inferiority Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them."
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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