Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 47

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds. View quote
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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense. View quote
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act. View quote
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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. View quote
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A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill. View quote
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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. View quote
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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes. View quote
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Our best history is still poetry. View quote
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A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion. View quote
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Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought for causes which are unpenetrated. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment. View quote
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Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear. View quote
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Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. View quote
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One definition of man is 'an intelligence served by organs.' View quote
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At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. View quote
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What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good. View quote
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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college for boys, not for men and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor. View quote
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A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad. View quote
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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. View quote
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Only poetry inspires poetry. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments. View quote
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Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman repose in energy. View quote
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Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring. View quote
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All persons are puzzles until at last we find some word or act the key to the man, to the woman straightaway all their past words and actions lie in light before us. 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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