Ralph Waldo Emerson — Wise Quotes

448 quotes · Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Wise

“A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.”

Men Success Motivation

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Wise

“Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. I knew a man of simple habits and earnest character who never put out his hands nor opened his lips to court the public, and having survived several rotten reputations of younger men, honor came at last and sat down with him upon his private bench from which he had never stirred."”

Character Simple Self Esteem

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“Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.”

Narrative Eloquence

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“A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.”

Men Needs

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“Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is bent on expression. The tell-tale body is all tongues. Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement.”

Men Wise Expression

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“Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.”

Men Creativity Illustration

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“I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.”

Moral Theology

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“No book was ever written down by any but itself.”

Book Reputation

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“A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.”

Self Pain Saint

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“It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.”

Book Creative Judging

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“Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.”

Character Students Conversation

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“Therefore all just persons are satisfied with their own praise. They refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that office. They believe that we communicate without speech, and above speech, and that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends, at whatever distance; for the influence of action is not to be measured by miles.”

Believe Distance Office

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