Ralph Waldo Emerson — Philosophical Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.”

Communication Speech Power Of Speech

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.”

Men Wisdom Justice

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Philosophical

“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?”

Self Happiness

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Philosophical

“Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.”

Vices Function

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Philosophical

“We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.”

Mark Aim Exaggeration

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Philosophical

“A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.”

Soul Hate Vigor

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Philosophical

“Every reform was once a private opinion.”

Opinion Reform

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Philosophical

“Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.”

Law Science

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Philosophical

“Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.”

Art Night Destiny

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Philosophical

“The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.”

Long Use Shells

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Philosophical

“What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.”

Work Divine

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Philosophical

“Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.”

Body Wisdom

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