Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

American - Poet | May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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