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There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Something is wanting to science until it has been humanized.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
And every man, in love or pride,
Of his fate is ever wide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
No anchor, no cable, no fences, avail to keep a fact a fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must have eyes of science to see in the seed its nodes...

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

Ralph Waldo Emerson