When life is true to the poles of nature, the streams of truth will roll through us in song.
Quotes from Letters and Social Aims — Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803–1882 United States
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Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
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The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
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The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
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The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
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Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
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Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.
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We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.
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There is no true orator who is not a hero.
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ralph Waldo Emerson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.