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title: "64 Form Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson"
description: "64 Form quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Plus more from Ralph Waldo Emerson and more Form sayings from other authors."
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> [Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/faith-makes-us-and-not-we-it-and-faith-makes-its-own-forms/)

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> [Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/picture-and-sculpture-are-the-celebrations-and-festivities-of-form/)

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

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> [As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/as-picture-teaches-the-colouring-so-sculpture-the-anatomy-of-form/)

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

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> [Wisdom is infused into every form.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/wisdom-is-infused-into-every-form/)

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

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> [The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-man-for-whom-the-law-exists-the-man-of-forms-the-conservative-is/)

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> [As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/as-we-refine-our-checks-become-finer-if-we-rise-to-spiritual-culture/)

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

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> [Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/freedom-has-nothing-to-do-with-having-the-right-to-vote-for-your/)

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

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> [Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/beauty-is-the-moment-of-transition-as-if-the-form-were-just-ready-to/)

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

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> [“Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/thought-is-the-seed-of-action-but-action-is-as-much-its-second-form-2/)

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

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> [And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/and-striving-to-be-man-the-worm-mounts-through-all-the-spires-of-form/)

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

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> [There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-no-beautifier-of-complexion-or-form-or-behavior-like-the/)

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

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> [No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/no-rent-roll-nor-army-list-can-dignify-skulking-and-dissimulation-and/)

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> [All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/all-forms-of-government-symbolize-an-immortal-government-common-to/)

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> [The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-eye-is-the-first-circle-the-horizon-which-it-forms-is-the-second/)

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> [The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-time-will-come-when-the-evil-forms-we-have-known-can-no-more-be/)

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> [The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-same-the-same-friend-and-foe-are-of-one-stuff-the-ploughman-the/)

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> [If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-i-quake-what-matters-it-what-i-quake-at-our-proper-vice-takes-form/)

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> [Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/nothing-divine-dies-all-good-is-eternally-reproductive-the-beauty-of/)

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

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> [I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-am-not-so-foolish-as-to-declaim-against-forms-forms-are-as/)

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> [There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-in-nature-a-parallel-unity-which-corresponds-to-the-unity-in/)

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> [The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-delicious-faces-of-children-the-beauty-of-school-girls-the-sweet/)

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> [There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-no-beautifier-of-complexion-or-form-or-behavior-like-the-2/)

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> [What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/what-we-do-not-call-education-is-more-precious-than-that-which-we/)

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> [We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-over-estimate-the-conscience-of-our-friend-his-goodness-seems/)

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> [Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/wit-makes-its-own-welcome-and-levels-all-distinction-no-dignity-no/)

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> [In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-the-fiji-islands-it-appears-cannibalism-is-now-familiar-they-eat/)

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> [Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/painting-seems-to-be-to-the-eye-what-dancing-is-to-the-limbs-when/)

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> [We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-ought-to-be-cautious-in-taking-even-the-best-ascertained-opinions/)

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> [An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/an-individual-man-is-a-fruit-which-it-cost-all-the-foregoing-ages-to/)

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> [A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-good-form-strikes-all-eyes-pleasantly-long-before-they-have-any/)

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> [The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-laws-of-light-and-of-heat-translate-each-other-so-do-the-laws-of/)

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> [In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-a-cabinet-of-natural-history-we-become-sensible-of-a-certain/)

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> [An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/an-expense-of-ends-to-means-is-fate-morganization-tyrannizing-over/)

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> [Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/eloquence-must-be-grounded-on-the-plainest-narrative-afterwards-it/)

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> [I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-have-sometimes-thought-that-in-order-to-be-a-good-minister-it-was/)

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> [By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/by-degrees-we-may-come-to-know-the-primitive-sense-of-the-permanent/)

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> [Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/behind-us-as-we-go-all-things-assume-pleasing-forms-as-clouds-do-far/)

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> [Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/power-is-what-they-want-not-candy-power-to-execute-their-design-power/)

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> [A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-beautiful-behavior-is-better-than-a-beautiful-form-it-gives-a/)

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> [All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/all-men-are-in-some-degree-impressed-by-the-face-of-the-world-some/)

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## 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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [“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/)

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

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

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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