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 only way to have a friend is to be one.
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  • The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.
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  • Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
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  • We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
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  • We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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  • A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
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  • A man in debt is so far a slave.
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  • A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
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  • A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
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  • A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
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  • A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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  • A man's library is a sort of harem.
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  • A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
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  • A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
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  • A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.
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  • A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
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  • Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
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  • Accept your genius and say what you think.
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  • Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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  • All diseases run into one. Old age.
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