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World Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

284 World quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The shot heard round the world opens Emerson’s thoughts, showing how one moment can echo everywhere. He writes that a soul, not a person, creates the world and that true wealth comes from genius and virtue, not just money. He also sees religions as the imaginative outpourings of a few minds.

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The world globes itself in a drop of dew.

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The world exists for the education of each man.

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The shot heard round the world.

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All the world loves a lover.

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Thoughts rule the world.

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The world belongs to the energetic.

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The world is his who has money to go over it.

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We walk alone in the world.

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The world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists.

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Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

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The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.

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I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

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

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The world is the ring of his spells, And the play of his miracles.

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The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.

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If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their…

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The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

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The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the…

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In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal…

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These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its…

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There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball…

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Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever…

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How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all…

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The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point,…

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“There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or…

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Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of…

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Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back…

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The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music every ore, To the candence of the whirling world Which dances round…

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Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name…

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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and…

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When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is…

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The…

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These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society…

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We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not,…

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Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept…

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The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it…

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At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and…

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“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in…

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I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me…

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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