Suicide Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

15 Suicide quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson’s 15 thoughts on suicide weave his transcendental outlook into a delicate topic. Expect his characteristic blend of individualism and moral pondering, all filtered through a lens that seeks meaning even in darkness.

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Skepticism is slow suicide.

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In imitation is a bit suicide.

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Imitation is suicide

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Immitation is suicide.

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A nation never falls but by suicide.

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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

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The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.

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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

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There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide...

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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of…

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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. . . . Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is…

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There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide,…

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I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me…

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Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure…

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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;…

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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