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RALPH WALDO EMERSON
American essayist and poet
(1803 - 1882)
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Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature.
      - Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality
        [Reading]

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
      - Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality
        [Knowledge]

The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
      - Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality
        [Truth]

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.
      - Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality
        [Shakespeare]

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
      - Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality
        [Quotations]

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.
      - Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality
        [Books]

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."
      - Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality
        [Plagiarism]

If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.
      - Letters and Social Aims--Quotations and Originality
        [Reading]

All men are poets at heart.
      - Literary Ethics [Poets]

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
      - Literary Ethics [Simplicity]

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.
      - Literary Ethics [Intellect]

Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring,
  With sudden passion languishing,
    Teaching barren moors to smile,
      Painting pictures mile on mile,
        Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths
          Whence a smokeless incense breathes.
      - May Day (st. 1) [Spring]

Nor sequent centuries could hit
  Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.
      - May Day and Other Pieces--Solution (l. 39)
        [Shakespeare]

Echo waits with art and care
  And will the faults of song repair.
      - May-day (l. 439) [Echo]

And striving to be Man, the worm
  Mounts through all the spires of form.
      - Mayday [Progress]

Nor count compartments of the floors,
  But mount to paradise
    By the stairway of surprise.
      - Merlin [Paradise]

When Nature has work to be done, she create a genius to do it.
      - Method of Nature [Genius]

For the world was built in order
  Around the atoms march in tune;
    Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder,
      The sun obeys them, and the moon.
      - Monadnock (st. 12) [Order]

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
      - Montaigne [Belief]

My garden is a forest ledge
  Which older forest s bound;
    The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge,
      Then plunge to depths profound!
      - My Garden (st. 3) [Gardens]

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
      - Nature (ch. III) [Light]

Ants never sleep.
      - Nature (ch. IV) [Ants]

Who gave thee, O Beauty,
  The keys of this breast,--
    Too credulous lover
      Of blest and unblest?
        Say, when in lapsed ages
          Thee knew I of old?
            Or what was the service
              For which I was sold?
      - Ode to Beauty (st. 1) [Beauty]

Go put your creed into your deed,
  Not speak with double tongue.
      - Ode--Concord [Deeds]

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
      - Of the American Scholar,
        in "Nature Addresses and Lectures"
        [Success]


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