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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing Reading Line Sense France

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yourself Make Necessary Somebody

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature Hidden Everything Stuff Made

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth Beautiful Truth Is Doubt Lies

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You Tax Benefit Every Receive

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom Power Great Well Must Before

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man Soldier Producer Scholar Priest

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time Soul Perfection Space Moral

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature Art Men Soul Me Name

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life Dreams God Men Man Innocent

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

World Said More Pay State Than

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty Grow Old Inward Steals

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