Ralph Waldo Emerson

American poet and philosopher

Lived from: 1803-1882

Category: Philosophers | Poets (Contemporary)

Quotes: Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.
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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
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'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
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A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.
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By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
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Civilization depends on morality.
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The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.
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Whatever limits us we call fate.
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All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
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'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.