Ralph Waldo Emerson Short Quotes

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Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The root of the plant is not unsightly to science...

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.

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That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The silent organ loudest chants
The master's requiem.

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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

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An action is the perfection and publication of thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
One is glad of eternity, when we find so much to learn.

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The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest...

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table.

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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The gods sell anything and to everybody at a fair price.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
London is the epitome of our times and the Rome of today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is easy for sugar to be sweet and for nitre to be salt.

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Science has shown the great circles in which Nature works..

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The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoever fights, whoever falls,
Justice conquers evermore.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson