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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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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.
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Character
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
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Nature
Books
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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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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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Beauty
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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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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
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Fear
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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Prayer
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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Character
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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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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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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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Beauty
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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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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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Action
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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Humility
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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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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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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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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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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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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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Humor
Source: Letters and Social Aims
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