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The quotations of

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American philosopher

1803–1882

102 quotes, most often on Friendship, Nature and Beauty. Part of the Poets collection.

Never read any book that is not a year old.
Society and Solitude (1870), Books
- Reading
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
Letters and Social Aims (1876), Quotation and Originality
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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.
Society and Solitude (1870), Success
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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.
Society and Solitude (1870), Books
- Reading

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