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title: "51 Real Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson"
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> [“Everything Real Is Self-Existent.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/everything-real-is-self-existent/)

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

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> [Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/every-man-passes-his-life-in-the-search-after-friendship/)

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

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> [Real action is in silent moments.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/real-action-is-in-silent-moments/)

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

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> [When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/when-friendships-are-real-they-are-not-glass-threads-or-frost-work/)

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

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> [Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/delicious-is-a-just-and-firm-encounter-of-two-in-a-thought-in-a/)

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

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> [“When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest thing we know.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/when-they-are-real-they-are-not-glass-threads-or-frostwork-but-the/)

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

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> [In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-the-presence-of-nature-a-wild-delight-runs-through-the-man-in/)

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

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> [When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/when-friendships-are-real-they-are-not-glass-threads-or-frost-work-2/)

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

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> [Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/self-sacrifice-is-the-real-miracle-out-of-which-all-the-reported/)

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

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> [ Knowledge is the antidote to fear. \[especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!\] ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/knowledge-is-the-antidote-to-fear-especially-as-fear-often-stands-for/)

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

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> [Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/let-us-be-poised-and-wise-and-our-own-today-let-us-treat-men-and/)

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

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> [I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-do-not-hesitate-to-read-all-good-books-in-translations-what-is/)

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

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> [We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-take-care-of-our-health-we-lay-up-money-we-make-our-roof-tight-and/)

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

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> [The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-art-of-sculpture-is-long-ago-perished-to-any-real-effect-it-is/)

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

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> [Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/spurious-prudence-making-the-senses-final-is-the-god-of-sots-and/)

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

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> [Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/real-men-don-t-conform-to-the-beliefs-of-others-even-when-society-has/)

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

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> [When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/when-he-is-pushed-tormented-defeated-he-has-a-chance-to-learn/)

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

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> [The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-cheapness-of-man-is-every-day-s-tragedy-it-is-as-real-a-loss-that/)

[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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> [A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-friend-is-a-person-with-whom-i-may-be-sincere-before-him-i-may-2/)

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

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> [I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-fear-the-popular-notion-of-success-stands-in-direct-opposition-in/)

[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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> [Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/whatever-events-in-progress-shall-disgust-men-with-cities-and-infuse/)

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

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> [We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-must-have-kings-we-must-have-nobles-nature-is-always-providing/)

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

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> [In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-strict-science-all-persons-underlie-the-same-condition-of-an/)

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

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> [We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-are-always-getting-ready-to-live-but-never-living-the-wave-moves/)

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

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> [Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. Do not go where the path may lead, go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/self-sacrifice-is-the-real-miracle-out-of-which-all-the-reported-2/)

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

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> [God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/god-will-have-life-to-be-real-we-will-be-damned-but-it-shall-be/)

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

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> [I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-grieve-that-grief-can-teach-me-nothing-nor-carry-me-one-step-into/)

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

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> [The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-connection-between-our-knowledge-and-the-abyss-of-being-is-still/)

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

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> [The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-finest-and-noblest-ground-on-which-people-can-live-is-truth-the/)

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

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> [The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-real-and-lasting-victories-are-those-of-peace-and-not-of-war/)

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

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> [Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/society-is-a-masked-ball-where-every-one-hides-his-real-character-and/)

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

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> [In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-our-definitions-we-grope-after-the-spiritual-by-describing-it-as/)

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

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> [You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/you-will-think-me-very-pedantic-gentlemen-but-holiday-though-it-may/)

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

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> [There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-no-privacy-that-cannot-be-penetrated-no-secret-can-be-kept/)

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

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> [Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/pretension-may-sit-still-but-cannot-act-pretension-never-feigned-an/)

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

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> [Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/nothing-can-work-damage-to-me-except-myself-the-harm-that-i-sustain-i/)

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

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> [Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/perpetual-modernness-is-the-measure-of-merit-in-every-work-of-art/)

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

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> [A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-friend-therefore-is-a-sort-of-paradox-in-nature-i-who-alone-am-i/)

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## Other authors on Real

## 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/)

[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/)

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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/)

[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/)

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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/)

[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/)

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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/)

[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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