Ralph Waldo Emerson — Philosophical Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.”

Mean Blessed Beauty

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.”

Secret Events Ties

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Philosophical

“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.”

Writing Stolen

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Philosophical

“No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.”

Men Littles

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Philosophical

“The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.”

Running Water Nature

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Philosophical

“Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.”

Way Fall Fruit

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Philosophical

“I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.”

Son Education

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Philosophical

“There is properly no history, only biography.”

History Historical

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Philosophical

“It is a luxury to be understood.”

Understanding Luxury

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Philosophical

“The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.”

Army Nations

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Philosophical

“Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.”

Inspirational Motivational

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Philosophical

“Truth is the summit of being.”

Truth Truth Is

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