Three Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

13 Three quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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For a concise taste of Emerson’s reflections on the concept of three, these thirteen lines offer a brief, thoughtful window into his transcendental perspective.

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Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

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When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

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If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their…

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No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

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We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

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The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./…

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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…

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My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with…

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A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether…

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There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who…

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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own…

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To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and…

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The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as…

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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