Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Infancy conforms to...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Infancy conforms to...

Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: In analyzing history...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: In analyzing history...

In analyzing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: If a man...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: If a man...

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Heaven sometimes hedges...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Heaven sometimes hedges...

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: I know of...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: I know of...

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose. ....

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Is the parent...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Is the parent...

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Intellect annuls fate....

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Intellect annuls fate....

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

Source: From Charles...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: If a man...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: If a man...

If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Here is the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Here is the...

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: I look on...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: I look on...

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: It is long...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: It is long...

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write,...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Intellectual tasting of...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Intellectual tasting of...

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

Source: In The...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Imitation is suicide....

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Imitation is suicide....

Imitation is suicide.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library,...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: I hate this...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: I hate this...

I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: If I cannot...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: If I cannot...

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: It is the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: It is the...

It is the eye which makes the horizon.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Is not marriage...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Is not marriage...

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: In America the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: In America the...

In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Ideas must work...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Ideas must work...

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: If a man...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: If a man...

If a man . . . can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; it is...

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