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title: "42 Stills Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson"
description: "42 Stills quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Plus more from Ralph Waldo Emerson and more Stills sayings from other authors."
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> [Our best history is still poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/our-best-history-is-still-poetry/)

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

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> [Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/those-who-cannot-tell-what-they-desire-or-expect-still-sigh-and/)

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

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> [Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/vanity-costs-money-labor-horses-men-women-health-and-peace-and-is/)

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

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> [Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/out-of-plato-come-all-things-that-are-still-written-and-debated-about/)

[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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> [If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-you-act-you-show-character-if-you-sit-still-you-show-it-if-you/)

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

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> [In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-the-highest-civilization-the-book-is-still-the-highest-delight/)

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

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> [To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/to-clothe-the-fiery-thought-in-simple-words-succeeds-for-still-the/)

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

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> [When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/when-the-vain-speaker-has-sat-down-and-the-people-say-what-a-good/)

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

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> [By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/by-going-one-step-further-back-in-thought-discordant-opinions-are/)

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

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> [Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/natural-religion-supplies-still-all-the-facts-which-are-disguised/)

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

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> [In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-the-highest-civilization-the-book-is-still-the-highest-delight-he/)

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

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> [Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/some-of-your-griefs-you-have-cured-and-the-sharpest-you-still-have/)

[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-2/)

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

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> [The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-word-unto-the-prophet-spoken-was-writ-on-tablets-yet-unbroken-the/)

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

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> [All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/all-history-is-the-decline-of-war-though-the-slow-decline-all-that/)

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

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> [The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-shows-of-the-day-the-dewy-morning-the-rainbow-mountains-orchards/)

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

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> [The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-perception-of-the-comic-is-a-tie-of-sympathy-with-other-men-a/)

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

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> [Silent rushes the swift Lord Through ruined systems still restored, Broadsowing, bleak and void to bless, Plants with worlds the wilderness; Waters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/silent-rushes-the-swift-lord-through-ruined-systems-still-restored/)

[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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> [The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-world-still-wants-its-poet-priest-a-reconciler-who-shall-not/)

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

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> [“The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-soul-is-no-traveller-the-wise-man-stays-at-home-and-when-his/)

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

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> [How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/how-silent-how-spacious-what-room-for-all-yet-without-place-to-insert/)

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

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> [The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-two-parties-which-divide-the-state-the-party-of-conservatism-and/)

[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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> [I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself anylonger for you, or you. If you can love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-appeal-from-your-customs-i-must-be-myself-i-cannot-break-myself/)

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

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> [If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-we-suddenly-plant-our-foot-and-say-i-will-neither-eat-nor-drink/)

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

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> [A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-character-is-like-an-acrostic-or-alexandrian-stanza-read-it-forward/)

[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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> [A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The reward for a thing well done, is to have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-child-convinced-against-his-will-is-of-the-same-opinion-still-the/)

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

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> [Harder still it has proved to rule the dragon Money... A whole generation adopted false principles, and went to their graves in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/harder-still-it-has-proved-to-rule-the-dragon-money-a-whole/)

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

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> [Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/eloquence-must-be-grounded-on-the-plainest-narrative-afterwards-it/)

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

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> [I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-must-be-myself-i-cannot-break-myself-any-longer-for-you-or-you-if/)

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

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> [Spring still makes spring in the mind When sixty years are told: Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, And we are never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/spring-still-makes-spring-in-the-mind-when-sixty-years-are-told-love/)

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

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> [In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-this-distribution-of-functions-the-scholar-is-the-delegated/)

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

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> [Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/then-climate-is-a-great-impediment-to-idle-persons-we-often-resolve/)

[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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> [The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-lover-of-nature-is-he-whose-inward-and-outward-senses-are-still-2/)

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

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> [But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/but-harder-still-it-has-proved-to-resist-and-rule-the-dragon-money/)

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

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> [Hither rolls the storm of heat; I feel its finer billows beat Like a sea which me infolds; Heat with viewless fingers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/hither-rolls-the-storm-of-heat-i-feel-its-finer-billows-beat-like-a/)

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

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## Other authors on Stills

## 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/)

[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/)

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