All Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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Nature
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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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