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title: "18 Century Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson"
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> [My hours are peaceful centuries.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/my-hours-are-peaceful-centuries/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Genius always finds itself a century too early.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/genius-always-finds-itself-a-century-too-early/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-passages-of-shakespeare-that-we-most-prize-were-never-quoted/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/nor-sequent-centuries-could-hitorbit-and-sum-of-shakespeare-s-wit/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/one-single-idea-may-have-greater-weight-than-all-the-men-animals-and/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/whence-then-this-worship-of-the-past-the-centuries-are-conspirators/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-frost-which-kills-the-harvest-of-a-year-saves-the-harvest-of-a/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/time-is-indeed-the-theater-and-seat-of-illusions-nothing-is-so/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-wish-the-days-to-be-as-centuries-loaded-fragrant-now-we-reckon-them/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/nor-sequent-centuries-could-hit-orbit-and-sum-of-shakspeare-s-wit-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/what-is-the-foundation-of-that-interest-all-men-feel-in-greek-history/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review,in such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-the-individuals-who-compose-the-purest-circles-of-aristocracy-in/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-a-relation-between-the-hours-of-our-life-and-the-centuries/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-like-manner-the-effect-of-every-action-is-measured-by-the-depth-of/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/englands-genius-filled-all-measureof-heart-and-soul-of-strength-and/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/it-is-in-both-cases-that-a-spiritual-life-has-been-imparted-to-nature/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/but-there-is-no-end-to-the-praise-of-books-to-the-value-of-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-world-spirit-is-a-good-swimmer-and-storms-and-waves-can-not-drown/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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## Other authors on Century

## More by Ralph Waldo Emerson

> [The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-history-of-mankind-interests-us-only-as-it-exhibits-a-steady-gain/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-we-will-not-interfere-with-our-thought-but-will-act-entirely-or/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-there-is-any-period-one-would-desire-to-be-born-in-is-it-not-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-cannot-speak-but-he-judges-himself-with-his-will-or-against-his/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/consideration-is-the-soil-in-which-wisdom-may-be-expected-to-grow-and/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-then-creative-reading-as-well-as-creative-writing-when-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [The order of things consents to virtue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-order-of-things-consents-to-virtue/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [Life only avails, not the having lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/life-only-avails-not-the-having-lived/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/another-success-is-the-post-office-with-its-educating-energy/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-child-reminds-us-that-playtime-is-an-essential-part-of-our-daily/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/no-man-can-be-criticised-but-by-a-greater-than-he-do-not-then-read/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/coal-lay-in-ledges-under-the-ground-since-the-flood-until-a-laborer/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-am-therefore-i-had-nothing-better-to-do-than-to-think/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-a-library-we-are-surrounded-by-many-hundreds-of-dear-friends-but/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-compensations-of-calamity-are-made-apparent-to-the-understanding/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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