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 241 till 260 of 593.
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It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
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It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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It's the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
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Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
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Language is fossil poetry.
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Language is the archives of history.
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Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
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Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
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Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
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Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.
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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.
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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.
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Life is a festival only to the wise.
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Life too near paralyses art.
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Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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