Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 37

We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to governments founded on force. There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment and a sufficient belief in the unity of things, to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints... or that the private citizen might be reasonable and a good neighbor, without the hint of a jail or a confiscation. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness an open and noble temper. View quote
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The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. View quote
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The force of character is cumulative. View quote
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Knowledge is the only elegance. View quote
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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship. View quote
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Words are alive cut them and they bleed. View quote
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The most dangerous thing is illusion. View quote
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Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations. View quote
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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. View quote
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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being. View quote
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Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar. View quote
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The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit. View quote
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What a new face courage puts on everything. View quote
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Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed. View quote
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We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited. View quote
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I didn't find my friends the good Lord gave them to me. View quote
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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer. View quote
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If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow. View quote
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Sorrow makes us all children againdestroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great. View quote
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Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended. View quote
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Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success. View quote
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What is the hardest thing in the world To think. 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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