Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Grateful

“When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.”

Men Noble Arriving

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Love

“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.”

Relationship Family Trust

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Angry

“A fly is as untamable as a hyena.”

Animal Hyenas

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Thoughtful

“Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.”

Men Needs

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Philosophical

“The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.”

Soul Hero Youth

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.”

Country Gay Pride

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Wise

“The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.”

Teaching Education

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Wise

“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”

Simple Greatness

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Wise

“A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”

Men Light Self Reliance

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Philosophical

“Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.”

Taken Nature Knowledge

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Philosophical

“We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.”

Life Joy Change

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Grateful

“When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.”

Eye Beautiful Good Morning

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