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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  • Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay,
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  • Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
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  • Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.
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  • Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
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  • Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
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  • So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.
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  • So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
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  • Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
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  • Society is a hospital of incurables.
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  • Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
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  • Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
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  • Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
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  • Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, ''If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
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  • Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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  • Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.
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  • Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived.
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  • Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
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  • Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.''
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  • Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
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  • Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.
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