Quotations quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days."
"America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race."
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
"All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients."
"Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function."
"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."
"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it."
"No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it."
"Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know."