| 561 Famous Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in
what part it pinched you.
[Lat., Si calceum induisses, tum demum sentires qua parte te
urgeret.]”
Shoemaking Quotes Source: Letters and Social Aims--Greatness
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“Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of
night, time out of space, and space out of time.”
Destiny Quotes Source: Society and Solitude--Works and Days
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“Ants never sleep.”
Ants Quotes Source: Nature (ch. IV)
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“Burly, dozing humblebee,
Where thou art is clime for me.
Let them sail for Porto Rique,
Far-off heats through seas to seek.
I will follow thee alone,
Thou animated torrid-zone!”
Bees Quotes Source: The Humble-Bee
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“Seeing only what is fair,
Sipping only what is sweet,
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Leave the chaff, and take the wheat.”
Bees Quotes Source: The Humble-Bee
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“Out from the heart of nature rolled
The burdens of the Bible old.”
Scripture Quotes Source: The Problem
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“The word unto the prophet spoken
Was writ on tablets yet unbroken:
The word by seers or sibyls told,
In groves of oak or fanes of gold,
Still floats upon the morning wind,
Still whispers to the willing mind.”
Scripture Quotes Source: The Problem
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“God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.”
Choice Quotes Source: Essay--Intellect
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“For the world was built in order
Around the atoms march in tune;
Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder,
The sun obeys them, and the moon.”
Order Quotes Source: Monadnock (st. 12)
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“Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
And always keep us so.”
Youth Quotes Source: Essays--The Poet
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“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.”
Enemies Quotes Source: Translations--From Omar Khayyam
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“When Shakespeare is charges with debts to his authors, Landor
replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He
breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,”
Plagiarism Quotes Source: Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality
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“It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that
a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is
entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at
discretion.”
Plagiarism Quotes Source: Shakespeare
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“Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.”
Sweetness Quotes Source: Compensation
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“There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same
state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place;
he is you, and you are he; there is a teaching; and by no
unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the
benefit.”
Teaching Quotes Source: Essays--Of Spiritual Laws
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“Echo waits with art and care
And will the faults of song repair.”
Echo Quotes Source: May-day (l. 439)
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“Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity
and you need not give alms.”
Wealth Quotes Source: Wealth
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“Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large
enough to cover.”
Wealth Quotes Source: Wealth
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“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
Consistency Quotes Source: Essays--Self-Reliance
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“With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. . . .
Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and
to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though
it contradict everything you said to-day.”
Consistency Quotes Source: Essays--Self-Reliance
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“And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of
worship.”
Worship Quotes Source: in an address
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“The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the
world, is the highest applause.”
Applause Quotes Source: in an address
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“He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds
us of others.”
Greatness Quotes Source: Essays--Second Series--Uses of Great Men
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“Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding
the secret to another soul.”
Greatness Quotes Source: Uses of Great Men
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“The bigger they are, the further they have to fall.”
Greatness Quotes Source: Uses of Great Men
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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