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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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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Subject:
Genius
Philosophical
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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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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Subject:
Life
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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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When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
Subject:
War
Politics
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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Subject:
Quotations
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Subject:
Freedom
Books
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Every principle is a war-note. Whoever attempts to carry out the rule of right and love and freedom must take his life in his hand.
Subject:
War
Principle
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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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