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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  • Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
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  • Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
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  • Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
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  • Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
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  • Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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  • People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
    Journals
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  • People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
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  • People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
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  • Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
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  • Poverty consist in feeling poor.
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  • Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
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  • Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
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  • Real action is in silent moments.
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  • Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.
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  • Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
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  • Revolutions go not backward.
    Nature - Conduct of Life (1860) War
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  • Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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  • Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
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  • Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.
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  • Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.
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