Ralph Waldo Emerson
American poet and philosopher
Lived from: 1803 - 1882
Category: Philosophers | Poets (Contemporary) Country: 
United States
Born: 25 may 1803 Died: 27 april 1882
Quotes 481 till 500 of 593.
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There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.
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There is no one who does not exaggerate!
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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
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There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
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There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
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There is properly no history; only biography.
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There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
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There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.
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There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
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These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
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Things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
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Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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