| 561 Famous Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Fame is proof that people are gullible.”
Fame Quotes |
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“We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.”
Force Quotes |
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“Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.”
Fortune Quotes |
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“For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?”
Freedom Quotes |
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“For everything you have missed you have gained something.”
Gain Quotes |
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“When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.”
Genius Quotes |
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“In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”
Genius Quotes |
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“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men--that is genius.”
Genius Quotes |
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“We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.”
Gentleman Quotes |
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“God enters by a private door into every individual.”
God Quotes |
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“A good indignation brings out all one's powers.”
Hate Quotes |
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“What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.”
Heart-quotes Quotes |
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“Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.”
Heart-quotes Quotes |
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“To believe your own thought, to believe that that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,-that is genius. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.”
Heart-quotes Quotes |
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“Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.”
Humanity Quotes |
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“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.”
Intelligence Quotes |
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“Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.”
Language Quotes |
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“No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.”
Law Quotes |
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“If you shoot at a king you must kill him.”
Leadership Quotes |
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“I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son.”
Learning Quotes |
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“The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.”
Life Quotes |
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“Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.”
Light Quotes |
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“The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.”
Listening Quotes |
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“Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature.”
Literature Quotes |
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“I can find my biography in every fable that I read.”
Literature Quotes |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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