Ralph Waldo Emerson
American poet and philosopher
Lived from: 1803 - 1882
Category: Philosophers | Poets (Contemporary) Country: 
United States
Born: 25 may 1803 Died: 27 april 1882
Quotes 181 till 200 of 593.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
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He is great who confers the most benefits.
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He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
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He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.
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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
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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.
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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
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Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.
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Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.
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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
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I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
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I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.
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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
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I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable - any real insight or broad human sentiment.
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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
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I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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