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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  • The course of everything goes to teach us faith.
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  • The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
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  • The dice of God are always loaded.
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  • The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
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  • The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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  • The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
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  • The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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  • The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
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  • The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
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  • The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
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  • The first wealth is health.
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  • The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
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  • The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
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  • The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
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  • The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.
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  • The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
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  • The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
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  • The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
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  • The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
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  • The greatest man in history was the poorest.
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