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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of going in for photography, you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a luxury to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We find in life exactly what we put into it
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is the symbol of Spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is the dwarf of himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
