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 561 till 580 of 593.
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When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
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Wherever there is power there is age.
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Wherever work is done, victory is attained.
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Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
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Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
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Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
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Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
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Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.
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Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
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