| 561 Famous Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Difficulties exist to be surmounted”
Trouble Quotes |
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“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”
Truth Quotes |
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“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
Understanding Quotes |
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“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”
Understanding Quotes |
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“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”
Understanding Quotes |
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“You cannot see the mountain near”
Vision Quotes |
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“Pictures must not be too picturesque.”
Vision Quotes |
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“The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.”
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“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.”
Winning Quotes |
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“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
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“Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary
of the intuitions.”
Proverbs (general) Quotes Source: Compensation
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“Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,--
Can your lurking thought surprise,
And interpret your device,
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All things wait for and divine him,--
How shall I dare to malign him?”
Gods Quotes Source: Initial Doemonic and Celestial Love (pt. I)
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“The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me,
correspondent to my flowing unto him.”
Gifts Quotes Source: Essays--Of Gifts
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“Send them into everlasting Coventry.”
Punishment Quotes Source: Essays--Manners, during English Civil War, officers were sent for punishment to the garrison at Conv
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“The true poem is the poet's mind.”
Poetry Quotes Source: Essays--Of History
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“For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a
poem.”
Poetry Quotes Source: Essays--The Poet
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“It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once
a poem.”
Poetry Quotes Source: Essays--The Poet
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“The finest poetry was first experience.”
Poetry Quotes Source: Shakespeare
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“Go put your creed into your deed,
Not speak with double tongue.”
Deeds Quotes Source: Ode--Concord
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“The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions,
inspirations, flashes of genius.”
Courage Quotes Source: Society and Solitude--Courage
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“The greatest man in history was the poorest.”
Poverty Quotes Source: Domestic Life
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“Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit,
and not give the bread of life.”
Preaching Quotes Source: An Address to the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge
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“And striving to be Man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form.”
Progress Quotes Source: Mayday
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“With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three
thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation
Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist
that there is no such thing as progress.”
Progress Quotes Source: Mayday
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“One thing is forever good;
That one thing is Success.”
Success Quotes Source: Fate
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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