Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 44

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. View quote
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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. View quote
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The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen. View quote
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I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom. View quote
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Culture is one thing and varnish is another. View quote
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Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of a sympathetic life. View quote
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Pride ruined the angels. View quote
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Live, let live, and help live. View quote
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If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential. View quote
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Nature encourages no looseness pardons no errors. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go. View quote
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Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. View quote
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Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature in darkness and light in heat and cold in the ebb and flow of water in male and female in the equation of quantity and quality in the fluids of the animal body in the systole an. View quote
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In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight. View quote
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The first lesson of history, is, that evil is good. View quote
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There are three wants which never can be satisfied that of the rich, who wants something more that of the sick, who wants something different and that of the traveler, who says, 'Anywhere but here.' View quote
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A forte always makes a foible. View quote
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The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it. View quote
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Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. View quote
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Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. View quote
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Life too near paralyses art. View quote
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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men. View quote
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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world. 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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