Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes (229 quotes)

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„There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.“
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„Revolutions go not backward.“
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„The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.“
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„Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.“
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„Every hero becomes a bore at last.“
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„God screens us evermore from premature ideas.“
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„Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.“
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„The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.“
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„Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?“
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„If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.“
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„In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.“
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„Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.“
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„Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.“
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„When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.“
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„Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.“
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„There is a tendency for things to right themselves.“
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„The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.“
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„No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.“
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„Children are all foreigners.“
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„The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.“

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Author born: May 25, 1803
Author died: April 27, 1882
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Poet

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