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"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."
Essays. First Series. Compensation.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time."
Essays. First Series. Compensation.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions."
Essays. First Series. Compensation.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds."
Essays. First Series. Spiritual Laws.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"All mankind love a lover."
Essays. First Series. Love.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays."
Essays. First Series. Epigraph to Friendship.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature."
Essays. First Series. Friendship.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behaviour yield to the energy of the individual."
Essays. Second Series. Manners.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And with Cæsar to take in his hand the army, the empire, and Cleopatra, and say, "All these will I relinquish if you will show me the fountain of the Nile.""
New England Reformers.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others."
Representative Men. Uses of Great Men.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?"
Representative Men. Montaigne.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it."
Representative Men. Shakespeare.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue."
English Traits. Race.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes."
English Traits. Manners.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence."
English Traits. Aristocracy.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do."
The Conduct of Life. Wealth.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye."
The Conduct of Life. Behaviour.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others."
The Conduct of Life. Behaviour.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better."
The Conduct of Life. Considerations by the Way.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth."
The Conduct of Life. Society and Solitude.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. 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."
The Conduct of Life. Books.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count."
The Conduct of Life. Old Age.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy."
Letters and Social Aims. Social Aims.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."
Letters and Social Aims. Quotation and Originality.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it."
Letters and Social Aims. Quotation and Originality.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life.""
Letters and Social Aims. Quotation and Originality.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent."
Letters and Social Aims. Quotation and Originality.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century."
Letters and Social Aims. Quotation and Originality.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world."
Progress of Culture. Phi Beta Kappa Address, July 18, 1867.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no, nor the language the actors spoke, nor the religion which they professed, whether Arab in the desert or Frenchman in the Academy. I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion."
Lectures and Biographical Sketches. The Preacher.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."
As quoted in "Considerations By the Way" in Conduct of Life by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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