Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson sayings, and Ralph Waldo Emerson proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Let there be worse cotton and better men.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Accuracy is essential to beauty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man often pays dear for a small frugality.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man ThinkingRalph Waldo Emerson
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Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If a man owns land, the land owns him.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.Ralph Waldo Emerson