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title: "28 Hundred Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson"
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> [The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-voyage-of-the-best-ship-is-a-zigzag-line-of-a-hundred-tacks/)

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

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> [Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/keep-cool-it-will-be-all-one-a-hundred-years-hence/)

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

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> [A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-sage-is-the-instructor-of-a-hundred-ages/)

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

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> [Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/outside-among-your-fellows-among-strangers-you-must-preserve/)

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

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> [Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/steam-is-no-stronger-now-than-it-was-a-hundred-years-ago-but-it-is/)

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

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> [We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-are-too-civil-to-books-for-a-few-golden-sentences-we-will-turn/)

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

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> [In old Egypt, it was established law, that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-old-egypt-it-was-established-law-that-the-vote-of-a-prophet-be/)

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

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> [The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-voyage-of-the-best-ship-is-a-zigzag-line-of-a-hundred-tacks-see/)

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

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> [Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/is-all-literature-eavesdropping-and-all-art-chinese-imitation-our/)

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

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> [Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/had-i-but-written-as-many-odes-in-praise-of-muhammad-and-ali-as-i/)

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

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> [Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/our-impatience-of-miles-when-we-are-in-a-hurry-but-it-is-still-best/)

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

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> [A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-collector-recently-bought-at-public-auction-in-london-for-one/)

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

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> [“There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-some-awe-mixed-with-the-joy-of-our-surprise-when-this-poet/)

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

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> [Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/every-man-alone-is-sincere-at-the-entrance-of-a-second-person-2/)

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

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> [We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-infer-the-spirit-of-the-nation-in-great-measure-from-the-language/)

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

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> [Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/genius-is-always-sufficiently-the-enemy-of-genius-by-over-influence/)

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

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> [The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-way-to-learn-german-is-to-read-the-same-dozen-pages-over-and-over/)

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

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> [Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/let-the-realist-not-mind-appearances-let-him-delegate-to-others-the/)

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

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> [He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/he-walks-abreast-with-his-days-and-feels-no-shame-in-not-studying-a/)

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

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-will-be-an-agreement-in-whatever-variety-of-actions-so-they-be/)

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

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> [The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-voyage-of-the-best-ship-is-a-zigzag-line-of-a-hundred-tacks-see-2/)

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

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> [We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-have-feudal-governments-in-a-commercial-age-it-would-be-but-an/)

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

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> [Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/every-spirit-builds-itself-a-house-and-beyond-its-house-a-world-and/)

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

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> [Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/meantime-the-education-of-the-general-mind-never-stops-the-reveries/)

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

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> [We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-pass-for-what-we-are-character-teaches-above-our-wills-men-imagine/)

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

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> [A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-sturdy-lad-from-new-hampshire-or-vermont-who-in-turn-tries-all-the/)

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

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> [It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/it-is-long-ere-we-discover-how-rich-we-are-our-history-we-are-sure-is/)

[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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## Other authors on Hundred

## 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/)

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