Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 8

A man in debt is so far a slave. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Our best thoughts come from others. View quote
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. View quote
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There never was a child so lovely but his mother wasn't glad to get him asleep. View quote
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Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive. View quote
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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. View quote
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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them. View quote
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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. View quote
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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. View quote
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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count. View quote
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When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts. View quote
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The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan. View quote
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Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody. View quote
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Raphael paints wisdom Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. View quote
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The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution. View quote
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We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two man talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort. View quote
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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. View quote
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If a man owns land, the land owns him. View quote
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Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence. View quote
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The virtues of society are the vices of the saints. View quote
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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see not to eat, not for love, but only gliding. View quote
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