Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 32

A good indignation brings out all one's powers. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? View quote
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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache. View quote
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Pride eradicates all vices but itself. View quote
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Its the not the Destination, It's the journey. View quote
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Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life. View quote
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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying. View quote
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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest. View quote
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know. View quote
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A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams. View quote
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The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold. View quote
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The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it... View quote
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'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence. View quote
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The world we live in is but thickened light. View quote
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Every man is eloquent once in his life. View quote
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There is no king nor sovereign state That can fix a hero's rate. View quote
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The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. View quote
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There are books... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences. View quote
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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit. View quote
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Language is fossil poetry. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear. View quote
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Life is a train of moods like a string of beads and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus. View quote
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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. View quote
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Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance. View quote
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Occupation: American Philosopher
Born: May 25, 1803
Died: April 27, 1882
Quotes count: 1647
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