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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  • Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
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  • Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
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  • Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.
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  • Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
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  • Earth laughs in flowers.
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  • Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.
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  • Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side.
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  • Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
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  • Fear always springs from ignorance.
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  • Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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  • I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
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  • In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
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  • In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
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  • Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
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  • It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.
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  • It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.
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  • Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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  • Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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  • Life is our dictionary.
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  • Live, let live, and help live
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