Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American poet and philosopher

Lived from: 1803 - 1882

Category: Philosophers | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 25 may 1803 Died: 27 april 1882

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  • I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
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  • I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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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.
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  • I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
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  • I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.
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  • I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
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  • If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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  • If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.
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  • If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.
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  • If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.
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  • If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
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  • If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
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  • If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
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  • If 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, though it be in the woods.
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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.
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  • If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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  • If we live truly, we shall see truly.
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  • If you shoot at a king you must kill him.
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  • If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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  • Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.
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