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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  • Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
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  • Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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  • Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.
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  • Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.
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  • Take notes on the spot: a note is worth a cartload of recollection.
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  • Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
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  • That which builds is better than that which is built.
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  • That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
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  • That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us.
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  • That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.
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  • The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
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  • The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
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  • The ancestor of every action is thought.
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  • The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
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  • The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
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  • The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
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  • The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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  • The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!
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  • The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
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  • The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.
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