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 301 till 320 of 593.
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Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing.
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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.
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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.
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Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
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Oh man! There is no planet, sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.
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One definition of man is ''an intelligence served by organs.''
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One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
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Our best history is still poetry.
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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
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Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
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Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
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Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.
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