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 sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.''
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  • The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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  • The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
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  • The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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  • The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
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  • The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
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  • The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
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  • The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.
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  • The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption - pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism.
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  • The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
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  • The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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  • The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
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  • The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.
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  • The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
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  • The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
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  • The true poem is the poet's mind.
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  • The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
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  • The virtue in most request is conformity.
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  • The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
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  • The walking of Man is falling forwards.
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