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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  • Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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  • Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
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  • Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.
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  • Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
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  • Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.
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  • Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
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  • Never read any book that is not a year old.
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  • New arts destroy the old.
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  • Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
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  • No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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  • No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
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  • No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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  • No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
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  • No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
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  • No man can do anything well, who does not esteem his work to be of importance.
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  • No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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  • No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.
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  • No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
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  • No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
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  • No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
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