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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  • A great man is always willing to be little.
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  • A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
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  • A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.
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  • An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
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  • Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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  • Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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  • Every advantage has its tax.
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  • Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.
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  • It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
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  • A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
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  • A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
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  • A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
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  • A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
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  • A man's what he thinks about all day long
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  • A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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  • As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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  • As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
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  • Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
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  • Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.
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  • Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
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