Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 45

A beautiful woman is a practical poet. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness. View quote
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War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man. View quote
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The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody. View quote
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The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation. View quote
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There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress. View quote
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Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism. View quote
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There is no eloquence without a man behind it. View quote
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Genius has no taste for weaving sand. View quote
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The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. View quote
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An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Other world There is no other world Here or nowhere is the whole fact. View quote
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England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children. View quote
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Two sorts of writers possess genius those who think, and those who cause others to think. View quote
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We may be partial, but Fate is not. View quote
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To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. View quote
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. View quote
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Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence. View quote
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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age. View quote
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Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends. View quote
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The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not. View quote
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The eye is easily frightened. View quote
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In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better. View quote
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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal. 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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