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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
US essayist & poet [more author details]
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There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
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We all boil at different degrees.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
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Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
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Hitch your wagon to a star.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "American Civilization", The Atlantic Monthly, 1862
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance"
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance", 1841
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'Art,' 1841
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'Journals,' 1836
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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Ralph Waldo Emerson, (attributed)
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, (attributed)
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, An Essay on Self-Reliance
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841
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Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal (May 1849)
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When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1824
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The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1839
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims (Quotation and Originality)
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876
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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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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876
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