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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
US essayist & poet [more author details]
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When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1824
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The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1839
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims (Quotation and Originality)
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876
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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England Reformers, 1844
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These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Public and Private Education, November 27, 1864
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In every work of genius we see our own rejected thoughts.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
As soon as there is life there is danger.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude (1870)
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude: Works and Days, 1870
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life, 'Fate,' 1860

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