Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 541 till 560 of 593.

• We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

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• We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

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• We live by our imagination, our admiration s, and our sentiments.

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• We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

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• We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

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• We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.

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• We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.

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• We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected

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• Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

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• What a new face courage puts on everything!

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• What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered.

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• What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.

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• What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

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• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.

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• What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

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• What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

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• Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.

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• When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

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• When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

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• When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• intelligence
• self-elected
• applications
• adventurers
• profession
• timeliness

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