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Quotes By author - Starting with R - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are 336 quotes for the author Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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Action
Teenager
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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Life
Work: Society and Solitude (1870)
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The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
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Wisdom
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The world belongs to the energetic.
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Character
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Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.
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Humor
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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Character
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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.
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Crime
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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
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Fear
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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Enthusiasm
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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Money
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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.
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Money
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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Action
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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Common Sense
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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Humility
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I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.
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Reading
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Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.
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Music
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There are always those who think they know what is your responsibility better than you do.
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Life
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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
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Imagination
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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
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Art
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You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.
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Kindness
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