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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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There are 336 quotes for the author Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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Progress
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Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
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Art
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Be an opener of doors.
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Opportunity
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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Life
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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Art
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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Friendship
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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Friendship
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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Life
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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Money
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
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Courage
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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Life
Source: Society and Solitude (1870)
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Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.
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Character
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If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
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Reading
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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Taxes
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He builded better than he knew; the conscious stone to beauty grew.
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Beauty
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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Money
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Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
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Confidence
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Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
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Quotations
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Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.
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Humor
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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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