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Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hate, Immortality, Knows
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851”, p.110, Harvard University Press

The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Memories, Men, Honest
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2610, Delphi Classics

Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Speech, Currents
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.102, Harvard University Press

All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws; nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs, by imitation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Book, Law
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.94, Harvard University Press

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silence, Shame, Discourse
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1387, Delphi Classics

Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age,—lasting as space and time,—embosomed in time and space.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Night, Numbers, Space
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.180

God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Names, Lasts
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.40, Harvard University Press

I am a part and parcel of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Parcel
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.30, Penguin

Let him be great, and love shall follow him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greatness, And Love, Levity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1319, Delphi Classics

Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye, Men, Sight
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] ed”

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Genius, Speak
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.162, Penguin

Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stronger, Good Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.240, Harvard University Press

The hero is suffered to be himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hero, Heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.387

There is no history; only biography.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Biographies
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838-1842”, p.202, Harvard University Press

In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Air, Taverns, Human Condition
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.146, Harvard University Press

Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cost, Pay, Fine Things
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4037, Delphi Classics

Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Husband, Home, Eye
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.271, Penguin

Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Home, Men, House
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.336, Harvard University Press

Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Space, Heaven, Fortitude
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Essays: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.126, ReadHowYouWant.com

Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stars, Men, Shining
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.30, North Atlantic Books

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope, Reason, Crime
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.13, Library of America

Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Faces, Visitors
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Prose
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.316, Harvard University Press

When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing, Men, Doe
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.389

Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Debt, Pay, Lasts
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.88, Library of America

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