Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 7

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Nothing external to you has any power over you. View quote
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. View quote
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free. View quote
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. View quote
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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. View quote
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Beauty without expression is boring. View quote
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Fear always springs from ignorance. View quote
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. View quote
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We acquire the strength we have overcome. View quote
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Traveling is a fool's paradise... I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there besides me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. View quote
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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth. View quote
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. View quote
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Thou art to me a delicious torment. View quote
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We are wiser than we know. View quote
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. View quote
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself. View quote
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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough. View quote
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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet. View quote
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Nature hates calculators. View quote
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries. View quote
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. View quote
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. 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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