Used Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

15 Used quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson’s musings on how we use nature, talent, and time echo his transcendental ideals. Fifteen succinct quotes provide a focused glimpse into his timeless wisdom.

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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

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Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

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Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

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Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.

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Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

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Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed…

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In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more…

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I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease…

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Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature…

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God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name…

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The scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to selfish ends. He was a…

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Will is the measure of power. To a great genius there must be a great will. If the thought is not a…

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The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and…

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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire.…

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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