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

“The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind, Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.”

Horse Meat Corn

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Wise

“An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.”

Men Heart Strong

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“The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.”

Men Eye

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“Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.”

Education College

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“Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.”

Fashion Growing Up Violence

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“Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.”

Wise Fashion Distance

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“Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.”

Men Real Wise

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“The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.”

Moving Use Views

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“A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.”

Men Character Loss

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“A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.”

Men Truth Honesty

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“All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.”

Men Lying Past

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“The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.”

Wise Friendship True Friend

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