Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

4.2K quotes · Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Spiritual

“God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.”

Food Beer Godly

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Love

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.”

Men Real Friendship

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Courageous

“It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.”

Suffering Injustice

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Love

“Let him be great, and love shall follow him.”

Greatness And Love

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Philosophical

“Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?”

Animal Affection Caught

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Philosophical

“The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.”

Mind Morning Wind

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Love

“Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.”

Persons Better Person

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Determined

“By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.”

Littles Perseverance

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Calm

“Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.”

Dog Sitting

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Courageous

“Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.”

Success Failure

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Grateful

“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.”

Inspirational Life

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Confident

“Men are what their mothers made them.”

Success Mom

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