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

“We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.”

Book Funny Reading

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Wise

“Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.”

Religious Body Saint

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“We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.”

Book Reading

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“Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.”

Book Reading

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“If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.”

Inspirational Brother Hero

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“Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.”

Men Hero Vices

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“A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.”

Men Wise

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“Let us be poised, wise and our own today.”

Wise Today

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“The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.”

Men Wise Weak Points

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“A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.”

Men Home Looks

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“Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.”

Writing Lines Reader

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“Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.”

Children Father Enjoy Life

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