--- title: "24 Debt Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson" description: "24 Debt quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Plus more from Ralph Waldo Emerson and more Debt sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2d/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_debt_always-pay-for-first-or-last-you-must-pa_1184460.png" --- > [Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/always-pay-for-first-or-last-you-must-pay-your-entire-debt/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2d/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_debt_always-pay-for-first-or-last-you-must-pa_1184460.png) > [Science does not know its debt to imagination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/science-does-not-know-its-debt-to-imagination/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27a/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_creativity_science-does-not-know-its-debt-to-imagin_632679.png) > [The borrower runs in his own debt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-borrower-runs-in-his-own-debt/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/133/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_borrower_the-borrower-runs-in-his-own-debt-120852_1208524.png) > [A man in debt is so far a slave.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-in-debt-is-so-far-a-slave/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/152/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_debt_a-man-in-debt-is-so-far-a-slave-573844_573844.png) > [Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/wouldst-thou-shut-up-the-avenues-of-ill-pay-every-debt-as-if-god/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09b/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_avenues_wouldst-thou-shut-up-the-avenues-of-ill_823349.png) > [Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/of-all-debts-men-are-least-willing-to-pay-their-taxes-what-a-satire/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c57/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_debt_of-all-debts-men-are-least-willing-to-pa_1546200.png) > [We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-cannot-overstate-our-debt-to-the-past-but-the-moment-has-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b98/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_claims_we-cannot-overstate-our-debt-to-the-past_750622.png) > [You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/you-cannot-give-anything-to-a-magnanimous-person-after-you-have/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/220/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_debt_you-cannot-give-anything-to-a-magnanimou_2845925.png) > [Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/solvency-is-maintained-by-means-of-a-national-debt-on-the-principle/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b9/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_conceit_solvency-is-maintained-by-means-of-a-nat_2566152.png) > [It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/it-is-always-so-pleasant-to-be-generous-though-very-vexatious-to-pay/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cce/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_debt_it-is-always-so-pleasant-to-be-generous_1630557.png) > [Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/science-does-not-know-its-debt-to-imagination-goethe-did-not-believe/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d8/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_belief_science-does-not-know-its-debt-to-imagin_1035633.png) > [We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-owe-to-genius-always-the-same-debt-of-lifting-the-curtain-from-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e0/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_common_we-owe-to-genius-always-the-same-debt-of_752037.png) > [Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/poverty-demoralizes-a-man-in-debt-is-so-far-a-slave-and-wall-street/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f1/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_be-a-man_poverty-demoralizes-a-man-in-debt-is-so_1323531.png) > [Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/put-god-in-your-debt-every-stroke-shall-be-repaid-the-longer-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2f/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_compound-interest_put-god-in-your-debt-every-stroke-shall_1481083.png) > [The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-whole-of-what-we-know-is-a-system-of-compensation-every-defect-in/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/067/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_compensation_the-whole-of-what-we-know-is-a-system-of_2966250.png) > [We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-see-young-men-who-owe-us-a-new-world-so-readily-and-lavishly-they/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40c/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_accounts_we-see-young-men-who-owe-us-a-new-world_943584.jpg) > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b18/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_century_i-wish-the-days-to-be-as-centuries-loade_2308746.png) > [Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/our-expense-is-almost-all-for-conformity-it-is-for-cake-that-we-run/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/985/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_beauty_our-expense-is-almost-all-for-conformity_1921050.jpg) > [I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-have-been-told-that-in-some-public-discourses-of-mine-my-reverence/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/727/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_cold_i-have-been-told-that-in-some-public-dis_1032776.jpg) > [Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/debt-grinding-debt-whose-iron-face-the-widow-the-orphan-and-the-sons/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d7/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_care_debt-grinding-debt-whose-iron-face-the-w_597249.jpg) > [Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/our-debt-to-tradition-through-reading-and-conversation-is-so-massive/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/113/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_appropriate_our-debt-to-tradition-through-reading-an_1662642.png) > [A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-cannot-free-himself-by-any-self-denying-ordinances-neither-by/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fff/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_another-man_a-man-cannot-free-himself-by-any-self-de_315613.jpg) > [Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/speak-as-you-think-be-what-you-are-pay-your-debts-of-all-kinds-i/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/268/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_advice_speak-as-you-think-be-what-you-are-pay-y_1750504.png) > [There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-a-third-silent-party-to-all-our-bargains-the-nature-and-soul/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/613/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_bargains_there-is-a-third-silent-party-to-all-our_2692068.png) ## Other authors on Debt ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/debt/ralph-waldo-emerson/#itemlist", "name": "24 Debt Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson", "numberOfItems": 24, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ralph Waldo Emerson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/always-pay-for-first-or-last-you-must-pay-your-entire-debt/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2d/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_debt_always-pay-for-first-or-last-you-must-pa_1184460.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2d/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_debt_always-pay-for-first-or-last-you-must-pa_1184460.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2d/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_debt_always-pay-for-first-or-last-you-must-pa_1184460.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Always pay; 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