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The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never read a book that is not a year old.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is with a good book as it is with good company.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life loiters at the book's first page,
Ah! could we turn the leaf. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ah! could we turn the leaf. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has written.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a tie between men to have read the same book.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We expect a great man to be a good reader.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The virtue of books is to be readable.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
a good reader makes a good book
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
One must be an inventor to read well.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've never written a book before.
— Keith Emerson
Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No book was ever written down by any but itself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The rain has spoiled the farmer's day;
Shall sorrow put my books away?
Thereby are two days lost. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shall sorrow put my books away?
Thereby are two days lost. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every burned book enlightens the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
— 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
He knew not what to do, and so he read. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No book has worth by itself, but by the relation to what you have from many other books, it weighs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is indispensable to inspiration? ... sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson