| 561 Famous Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Fear always springs from ignorance.”
Fear Quotes Source: The American Scholar
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“Chide me not, laborious band!
For the idle flowers I brought;
Every aster in my hand
Goes home loaded with a thought.”
Asters Quotes Source: The Apology
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“The April winds are magical,
And thrill our tuneful frames;
The garden-walks are passional
To bachelors and dames.”
April Quotes Source: April
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“I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community
can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we
must get rid of freedom.”
Slavery Quotes Source: The Assault upon Mr. Sumner's Speech
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“The sea returning day by day
Restores the world-wide mart.
So let each dweller on the Bay
Fold Boston in his heart
Till these echoes be choked with snows
Or over the town blue ocean flows.”
Boston Quotes Source: Boston (st. 20)
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“Behold the Sea,
The opaline, the plentiful and strong,
Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,
Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July;
Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds,
Purger of earth, and medicine of men;
Creating a sweet climate by my breath,
Washing out harms and griefs from memory,
And, in my mathematic ebb and flow,
Giving a hint of that which changes not.”
Ocean Quotes Source: Sea Shore
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“A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a
thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul,
Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.”
History Quotes Source: Essays--History
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“There is properly no history, only biography.”
History Quotes Source: Essays--History
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“Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should
be an inventor.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,”
Invention Quotes Source: Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality
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“The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale,
their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without
sleep, the day a fear of interruption,--pallor, squalor, hunger,
and egotism. If you come near them and see what conceits they
entertain--they are abstractionists, and spend their days and
nights in dreaming some dream; in expecting the homage of society
to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of
proportion in its presentment, of justness in its application,
and of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize
it.”
Students Quotes Source: Representative Men--Montaigne
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“When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it
proved an intellectual trick,--no more. They eat your service
like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel
you, and delight in you all the time.”
Service Quotes Source: Essays--Of Gifts
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“A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless.
I want to devote my limited life to serving the people
limitlessly.”
Service Quotes Source: Essays--Of Gifts
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“Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I
have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred
blessings on me.”
Service Quotes Source: Essays--Of Gifts
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“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service
of others.”
Service Quotes Source: Essays--Of Gifts
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“So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So near is God to man.
When Duty whispers low, Thou must,
The youth replies, I can.”
Duty Quotes Source: Voluntaries (st. 3, l. 13)
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“The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and
likeness.”
Sympathy Quotes Source: Representative Men--Montaigne
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“There is no true orator who is not a hero.”
Oratory Quotes Source: Letters and Social Aims--Eloquence
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“Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.”
Oratory Quotes Source: Remark on Choate's words
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“Conversation is a game of circles.”
Conversation Quotes Source: Essays--Circles
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“Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.”
Conversation Quotes Source: Society and Solitude--Clubs
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“The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion.
The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the
mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into
every individual.”
Intellect Quotes Source: Essays--Intellect
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“Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each
other.”
Intellect Quotes Source: Literary Ethics
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“'Tis good-will makes intelligence.”
Intellect Quotes Source: The Titmouse (l. 65)
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“London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.”
London Quotes Source: English Traits--Result
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“Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring,
With sudden passion languishing,
Teaching barren moors to smile,
Painting pictures mile on mile,
Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths
Whence a smokeless incense breathes.”
Spring Quotes Source: May Day (st. 1)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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