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Famous Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them”
Source: Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays
“Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.”
Source: The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”
Source: The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
Source: Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims
“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.”
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
Source: Nature: Addresses, and Lectures
“As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.”
Source: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
Source: Essays (Annotated Edition)
“It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842