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

“Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.”

Reality Quality Power

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Wise

“I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.”

Winning Stars Wise

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Wise

“All high beauty has a moral element in it.”

Beauty Moral Elements

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“What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.”

Done Literature

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“That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.”

Education Educational

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“Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished of his proportion; and the stricter theunion, the smaller and the more pitiful he is. But leave him alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul, he will go up and down doing the works of a true member, and, to the astonishment of all, the work will be done with concert, though no man spoke.”

Men Soul Secret

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“So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.”

Men Self Wise

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“The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.”

Thinking Mind Communication

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“Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.”

Hours Sympathetic Biographers

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“Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the reproduction in finer form, of all our havings.”

Wise Flower Civilization

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“A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.”

Men Greatness Dresses

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“If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.”

Genius Criticism Odds

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