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title: "33 Poor Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson"
description: "33 Poor quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Plus more from Ralph Waldo Emerson and more Poor sayings from other authors."
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> [Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/ah-if-the-rich-were-rich-as-the-poor-fancy-riches/)

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

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> [The poor are only they who feel poor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-poor-are-only-they-who-feel-poor/)

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

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> [Music is the poor man's Parnassus.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/music-is-the-poor-man-s-parnassus/)

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

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> [Poverty consist in feeling poor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/poverty-consist-in-feeling-poor/)

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

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> [“Poverty consists in feeling poor.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/poverty-consists-in-feeling-poor/)

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

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> [The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-state-is-a-poor-good-beast-who-means-the-best-it-means-friendly/)

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

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> [We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-are-rich-only-through-what-we-give-and-poor-only-through-what-we/)

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

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> [Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/friendship-requires-more-time-than-poor-busy-men-can-usually-command/)

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

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> [God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/god-said-i-am-tired-of-kings-i-suffer-them-no-more-up-to-my-ear-this/)

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

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> [The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing,"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-poor-and-the-low-have-their-way-of-expressing-the-last-facts-of/)

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

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> [What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/what-is-it-men-love-in-genius-but-its-infinite-hope-which-degrades/)

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

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> [Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/sickness-is-poor-spirited-and-cannot-serve-anyone-it-must-husband-its/)

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

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> [Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/do-not-tell-me-of-my-obligation-to-put-all-poor-men-in-good/)

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

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> [Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/our-friendships-hurry-to-short-and-poor-conclusions-because-we-have/)

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

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> [Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/thus-is-man-made-equal-to-every-event-he-can-face-danger-for-the/)

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

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> [It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/it-is-commonly-said-by-farmers-that-a-good-pear-or-apple-costs-no/)

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

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> [Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/let-the-amelioration-in-our-laws-of-property-proceed-from-the/)

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

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> [It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/it-is-commonly-observed-that-a-sudden-wealth-like-a-prize-drawn-in-a/)

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

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> [The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-world-spirit-is-a-good-swimmer-and-storms-and-waves-can-not-drown/)

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

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> [On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/on-the-other-side-the-conservative-party-composed-of-the-most/)

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

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> [Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/sleep-takes-off-the-costume-of-circumstance-arms-us-with-terrible-2/)

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

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> [Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/pride-can-go-without-domestics-without-fine-clothes-can-live-in-a/)

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

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> [Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/wealth-and-poverty-are-seen-for-what-they-are-it-begins-to-be-seen/)

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

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> [We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-legislate-against-forestalling-and-monopoly-we-would-have-a-common/)

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

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> [Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/senators-and-presidents-have-climbed-so-high-with-pain-enough-not/)

[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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> [Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/tis-the-old-secret-of-the-gods-that-they-come-in-low-disguises-tis/)

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

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> [Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/government-exists-to-defend-the-weak-and-the-poor-and-the-injured/)

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

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> [I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-wiped-away-the-weeds-and-foam-i-fetched-my-sea-born-treasures-home/)

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

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> [Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/without-the-great-arts-which-speak-to-the-sense-of-beauty-a-man-seems/)

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

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> [He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/he-is-the-rich-man-in-whom-the-people-are-rich-and-he-is-the-poor-man/)

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

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> [Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/let-us-make-education-brave-and-preventive-politics-is-an-afterwork-a/)

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

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> [The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-cities-drain-the-country-of-the-best-part-of-its-population-the/)

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

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## Other authors on Poor

## 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/)

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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/)

[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/)

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