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Hate Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

25 Hate quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson’s transcendental lens isn’t blind to the uglier parts of humanity. Across twenty‑five statements he dissects hate, positioning it as a force to be understood rather than merely condemned, all while keeping his signature contemplative tone.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

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Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.

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Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

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A system-grinder hates the truth.

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I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

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The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

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The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

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I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

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Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you…

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How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.

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The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to…

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I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn…

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The finished man of the world must eat of every apple at once. He must hold his hatreds also at arm's length,…

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If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills…

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He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice…

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Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we…

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Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What…

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I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a…

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Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so…

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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive…

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All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it…

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This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all…

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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.

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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…

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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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…

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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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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…

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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…

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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…

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