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 nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
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  • The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the world's eye.
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  • The only gift is a portion of thyself.
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  • The only prudence in life is concentration.
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
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  • The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.
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  • The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.
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  • The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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  • The people are to be taken in small doses.
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  • The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
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  • The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
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  • The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
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  • The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
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  • The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
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  • The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
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  • The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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  • The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
    Works (1913) IV, 315
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  • The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
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  • The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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  • The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.
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