| 561 Famous Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Born for success, he seemed
With grace to win, with heart to hold,
With shining gifts that took all eyes.”
Success Quotes Source: In Memoriam (l. 60)
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“If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and
there abide, the huge world will come round to him.”
Success Quotes Source: Of the American Scholar, in "Nature Addresses and Lectures"
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“If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or
can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs,
than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his
house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law,
people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort
to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the
prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey
into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or
can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious
songs and verses, 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept:
the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and
tens and fifties to his door.”
Success Quotes Source: Works (vol. VIII), in his "Journal" (1855) p, 528 (ed. 1912)
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“The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted
until within this century.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,”
Shakespeare Quotes Source: Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality
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“Nor sequent centuries could hit
Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.”
Shakespeare Quotes Source: May Day and Other Pieces--Solution (l. 39)
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“What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of
religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has he not settled?
What mystery has he not signified his knowledge of? What office,
or function, or district of man's work, has he not remembered?
What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon?
What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What
lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What
gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?”
Shakespeare Quotes Source: Representative Men--Shakespeare
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“When Nature has work to be done, she create a genius to do it.”
Genius Quotes Source: Method of Nature
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“The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and
no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited
and gladly entertained by men around him.”
Genius Quotes Source: Race
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“The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering
trade.”
Business Quotes Source: Work and Days
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“I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech,
the sea which receives tributaries from every region under
heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles
river when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in
originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.”
Reading Quotes Source: Essays--Books
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“Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for
literature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,”
Reading Quotes Source: Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality
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“If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what
books he read.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,”
Reading Quotes Source: Letters and Social Aims--Quotations and Originality
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“The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.”
Public Quotes Source: Conduct of Life--Worship
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“Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,
Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air
Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,
And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end.
The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet
Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit
Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed
In a tumultuous privacy of storm.”
Snow Quotes Source: The Snow-Storm
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“Come, see the north-wind's masonry,
Out of an unseen quarry evermore
Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer
Curves his white bastions with projected roof
Round every windward stake, or tree, or door.
Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work
So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he
For number or proportion.”
Snow Quotes Source: The Snow-Storm
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“The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility
rests on possession and use of land.”
Agriculture Quotes Source: Society and Solitude--Farming
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“Bring me wine, but wine which never grew
In the belly of the grape,
Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, reaching through
Under the Andes to the Cape,
Suffered no savor of the earth to escape.”
Wine and spirits Quotes Source: Bacchus (st. 1)
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“Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.”
Work Quotes Source: Quatrains--Nature
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“My work is a game, a very serious game.”
Work Quotes Source: Quatrains--Nature
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“Nor knowest thou what argument
Thy like to thy neighbor's creed has lent,
All are needed by each one;
Nothing is fair or good alone.”
Influence Quotes Source: Each and All
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“We grant no dukedoms to the few,
We hold like rights and shall;
Equal on Sunday in the pew,
On Monday in the mall.
For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land, or life, if freedom fail?”
Freedom Quotes Source: Boston (st. 5)
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“My angel,--his name is Freedom,--
Choose him to be your king;
He shall cut pathways east and west,
And fend you with his wing.”
Freedom Quotes Source: Boston Hymn
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“Self-trust is the essence of heroism.”
Heroes Quotes Source: Essay--Heroism
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“The hero is not fed on sweets,
Daily his own heart he eats;
Chambers of the great are jails,
And head-winds right for royal sails.”
Heroes Quotes Source: Essays--Heroism--Introduction
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“The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.”
Shoemaking Quotes Source: Letters and Social Aims--Greatness
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