Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About History
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The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
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The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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The greatest man in history was the poorest.
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All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.
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Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.
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In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.
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The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.
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Our best history is still poetry.
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Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.
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We live ruins amid ruins.
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Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.
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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
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Knowledge is the only elegance.
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Language is the archives of history.
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Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.
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Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.
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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
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A man is a god in ruins.
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Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.
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Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.
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Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.
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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.
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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
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There is properly no history, only biography.
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In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.
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The first lesson of history is that evil is good.
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