Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson with men

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

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• Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
  

  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.

  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.

  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.

  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Subjects in these quotes:

• electricity
• permanently
• conditions
• something
• fortunate
• company

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