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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Topic: Patience
Source: None
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Peace has its victories, but it takes a brave man to win them.
Topic: Peace
Source: None
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Topic: Peace
Source: None
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Topic: Peace
Source: None
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Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.
Topic: Piety
Source: None
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When Shakespeare is charges with debts to his authors, Landor
replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He
breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Topic: Plagiarism
Source: Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality
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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 thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at
discretion.
Topic: Plagiarism
Source: Shakespeare
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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
Topic: Pleasure
Source: None
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The true poem is the poet's mind.
Topic: Poetry
Source: Essays--Of History
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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a
poem.
Topic: Poetry
Source: Essays--The Poet
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It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once
a poem.
Topic: Poetry
Source: Essays--The Poet
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The finest poetry was first experience.
Topic: Poetry
Source: Shakespeare
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Every day brings a ship,
Every ship brings a word;
Well for those who have no fear,
Looking seaward well assured
That the word the vessel brings
Is the word they wish to hear.
Topic: Post
Source: Letters
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The greatest man in history was the poorest.
Topic: Poverty
Source: Domestic Life
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There is no knowledge that is not power.
Topic: Power
Source: None
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The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
Topic: Power
Source: None
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Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit,
and not give the bread of life.
Topic: Preaching
Source: An Address to the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge
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Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
Topic: Present
Source: None
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And striving to be Man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form.
Topic: Progress
Source: Mayday
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With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three
thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation
Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist
that there is no such thing as progress.
Topic: Progress
Source: Mayday
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No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
Topic: Property
Source: None
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If a man owns land, the land owns him.
Topic: Property
Source: None
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Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary
of the intuitions.
Topic: Proverbs (General)
Source: Compensation
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The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.
Topic: Public
Source: Conduct of Life--Worship
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The people are to be taken in very small doses.
Topic: Public Speaking
Source: None
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Send them into everlasting Coventry.
Topic: Punishment
Source: Essays--Manners, during English Civil War, officers were sent for punishment to the garrison at Conv
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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
Topic: Punishment
Source: None
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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
Topic: Pursuit
Source: None
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The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
Topic: Quality
Source: None
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Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.
Topic: Quality
Source: None
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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.
Topic: Quantity
Source: None
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When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless!
Topic: Quarrel
Source: None
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He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.
Topic: Quotation
Source: None
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The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
Topic: Quotation
Source: None
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Topic: Quotes
Source: None
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The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
Topic: Quotes
Source: None
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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech,
the sea which receives tributaries from every region under
heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles
river when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in
originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
Topic: Reading
Source: Essays--Books
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Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for
literature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Topic: Reading
Source: Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality
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If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what
books he read.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Topic: Reading
Source: Letters and Social Aims--Quotations and Originality
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The more reason, the less government.
Topic: Reason
Source: None
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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
Topic: Reform
Source: None
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What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?
Topic: Reform
Source: None
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Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .
Topic: Rejection
Source: None
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
Source: None
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
Source: None
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Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
Topic: Repetition
Source: None
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No book was ever written down by any but itself.
Topic: Reputation
Source: Spiritual Laws
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Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation.
Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of
me.
[Lat., Nemo me lacrymis decoret, nec funera fletu.
Faxit cur? Volito vivu' per ora virum.]
Topic: Reputation
Source: Spiritual Laws
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Men are respectable only as they respect.
Topic: Respect
Source: None
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The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Topic: Reward
Source: None
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