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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  • Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.
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  • Fame is proof that the people are gullible.
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  • Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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  • Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.
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  • Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
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  • Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
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  • Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
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  • Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world.
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  • For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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  • Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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  • Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
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  • Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
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  • Go oft to the house of thy friend,
    for weeds choke the unused path.
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  • Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
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  • Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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  • Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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  • Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
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  • Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.
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  • Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
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  • Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
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