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Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars. He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions. "In the morning, - solitude;" said Pythagoras; that Nature may speak to the imagination, as she does never in company, and that her favorite may make acquaintance with those divine strengths which disclose themselves to serious and abstracted thought. 'Tis very certain that Plato, Plotinus, Archimedes, Hermes, Newton, Milton, Wordsworth, did not live in a crowd, but descended into it from time to time as benefactors: and the wise instructor will press this point of securing to the young soul in the disposition of time and the arrangements of living, periods and habits of solitude. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never read a book that is not a year old. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Jim Harrison

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right. — Jim Harrison

Reading Emerson Quotes By Don DeLillo

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne. — Don DeLillo

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By David Markson

You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes. — David Markson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Donald McCaig

You'll want to read books - novels, because ladies are frivolous; poetry because ladies are sentimental; and sermons, because we are pious. If you must read essays, Mr. Emerson might be best. Your gentleman may have a nodding acquaintance with his works. — Donald McCaig

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Thomas Moore

Although the making of a religion of one's own can be satisfying, it can progress further and faster with the aid of the spiritual traditions. Your own spiritual path risks being too personal and limited. What resources do you have compared to the traditions that have thought of things you will never consider? They have refined ideas and images and teachings and moral guidelines expressed in elegant and inspiring ways. They have produced spiritual beauty of a kind no single person could ever create. Read Emerson's journals and you find that he was reading Hafiz for months, and Thoreau's homespun spiritual insights come wrapped in references from the Western and Eastern traditions. — Thomas Moore

Reading Emerson Quotes By Rutherford B. Hayes

For character, to prepare for the inevitable I recommend selections from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. His writings have done for me far more than all other reading. — Rutherford B. Hayes

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of course, there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man. History and exact science he must learn by laborious reading. Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office, - to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame. Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and our American colleges will recede in their public importance, whilst they grow richer every year. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882) — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life loiters at the book's first page,
Ah! could we turn the leaf. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

One must be an inventor to read well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Jorge Luis Borges

Emerson said that a library is a magic chamber in which there are many enchanted spirits. They wake when we call them. When the book lies unopened, it is literally, geometrically, a volume, a thing among things. When we open it, when the book surrenders itself to its reader, the aesthetic event occurs. And even for the same reader the same book changes, for the change; we are the river of Heraclitus, who said that the man of yesterday is not the man of today, who will not be the man of tomorrow. We change incessantly, and each reading of a book, each rereading, each memory of that rereading, reinvents the text. The text too is the changing river of Heraclitus. — Jorge Luis Borges

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground of other reading and hearing-that in large sense, one would say there is no pure originality. 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. It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Read proudly
put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Kevin Emerson

I love to write, and I love to read too, but that doesn't mean I like to write about reading - 'cause nothing ruins the fun of reading a good story like the evil English army of Discuss, Analyze, and that hideous duo Compare and Contrast. — Kevin Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Jim Harrison

This infantile sense of order tended to infect my life at large. Up at 5:30 a.m., coffee, oatmeal, perhaps sausage (homemade), and fresh eggs giving one of the yolks to Lola. Listening to NPR and grieving more recently over the absence of Bob Edwards who was the sound of morning as surely as birds. Reading a paragraph or two of Emerson or Loren Eiseley to raise the level of my thinking. Going out to feed the cattle if it was during our six months of bad weather. — Jim Harrison

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

I may say it of our preposterous use of books,
He knew not what to do, and so he read. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when these things are heard without regard, as above or below us, then is the Commonwealth sick or dead. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is with a good book as it is with good company. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

We often read with as much talent as we write. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading Emerson Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties. — Ralph Waldo Emerson