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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

American Poet, Writer, Philosopher May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882

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the mystic must be steadily told,—All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,—universal signs, instead of these village symbols,—and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but..."
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all. Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults."
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years..."
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare. Ralph Waldo Emerson
That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead drunk in the street, carried to the duke's house, washed and dressed and laid in the duke's bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke, and assured that he had been insane, owes its popularity to the fact, that it symbolizes so well the state of man, who is in the world a sort of sot, but now and then wakes up, exercises his reason, and finds himself a true prince. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his..."
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of..."
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make..."
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Every burned book enlightens the world."
Every burned book enlightens the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "A great part of courage is the courage of having done the..."
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Great men exist that there may be greater men."
Great men exist that there may be greater men. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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