Ralph Waldo Emerson — Philosophical Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.”

Mind Infinite Dimensions

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Philosophical

“If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.”

War Democracy Freedom

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Philosophical

“We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.”

Past Debt

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Philosophical

“Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.”

Men Enthusiasm

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Philosophical

“The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.”

Numbers Principles Values

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Philosophical

“The virtue of books is to be readable.”

Writing Book

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Philosophical

“Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.”

Character Talent

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Philosophical

“Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.”

Flower Punishment Fruit

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Philosophical

“Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.”

Men Spiritual Prayer

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Philosophical

“Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.”

Children Duty

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Philosophical

“The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.”

Beautiful Beauty

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Philosophical

“The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.”

Success Greatness Congratulations

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