Honest Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

11 Honest quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson distills his thoughts on honesty into ten concise passages. Though brief, the selection highlights the essential threads of his philosophy, making it an accessible entry point.

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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

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Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it…

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All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no…

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The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on…

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Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or…

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Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of…

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There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of…

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There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of…

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The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that…

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You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in…

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