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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson

By Simran Khurana, About.com

Often times I am amazed at how quotations from authors and poets of the yesteryears; such as Ralph Waldo Emerson; remain true even today. Read this list of Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes to see how true his words ring even today. If you want me to include your favorite Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on this site, please fill out the quotation suggestion form.


Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, Thou dost mock at fate and care.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Olympian bards who sung, Divine ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
A ruddy drop of manly blood, The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can!

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