Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 46

He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men. View quote
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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial. View quote
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People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself. View quote
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Friendship is an order of nobility from its revelations we come more worthily into nature. View quote
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Cunning is strength withheld. View quote
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We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually. View quote
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In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod. View quote
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Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation. View quote
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The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day. View quote
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The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health. View quote
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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. View quote
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The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea. View quote
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There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey. View quote
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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other. View quote
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Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence. View quote
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But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets and oracles, the high-priesthood of the pure reason, the Trismegisti, the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age. View quote
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A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own. View quote
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The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it. . . . Beware of me, it says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands. View quote
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Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power and power because it is as good as money. View quote
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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight. View quote
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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters. View quote
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Today is a king in disguise. 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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