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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Quotes By author - Starting with R - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; it seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.
Subject:
Character
Possessions
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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Subject:
Love & Romance
Source: Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
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When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
Subject:
War
Politics
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Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
Subject:
Food
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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Subject:
Quotations
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Subject:
Life
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Subject:
Life
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There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
Subject:
Poetry
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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Subject:
Life
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Subject:
Freedom
Books
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