Quotes with emerson

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• We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• We are wiser than we know.
  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• We have more than we use.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• We live by our imagination, our admiration s, and our sentiments.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• superstitions
• intelligence
• imagination
• earthquake
• admiration
• sentiments

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