Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. by Ralph Waldo Emerson.I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The highest compact we can make with our fellow is – “Let there be truth between us two forevermore.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a gold smit’s.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Flowers. . . are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Earth Laughs in Flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When a man says to me, “I have the intensest love of nature,” at once I know that he has none.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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For the resolute and determined there is time and opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson