Ralph Waldo Emerson

(92 votes)   Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(92 votes)   One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(92 votes)   The dice of God are always loaded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(92 votes)   The true poem is the poet's mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(92 votes)   We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(92 votes)   What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(91 votes)   It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(91 votes)   My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(91 votes)   Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(91 votes)   Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(90 votes)   A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(90 votes)   A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(90 votes)   Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(90 votes)   He is great who confers the most benefits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(90 votes)   I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable -- any real insight or broad human sentiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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