I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.
Quotes from Journals — Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803–1882 United States
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Journals (1822)
Journals (1822)
People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
Journals (1822)
We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
Journals (1822)
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
Journals (1822)
The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.
Journals (1867)
Journals (1822)
Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the state.
Journals (1822)
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
Journals (1822)
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Journals (1822)
Everything intercepts us from ourselves.
Journals (1822)
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Journals (1822)
How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.
Journals (1822)
The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
Journals (1822)
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Journals (1822)
You can take better care of your secret than another can.
Journals (1822)
Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock.
Journals (1822)
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
Journals (1822)
All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle.
Journals (1822)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ralph Waldo Emerson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.