Emerson Quotes
68 Emerson quotes by 51 unique authors
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There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
— James Russell Lowell
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Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England,…
— Oscar Wilde
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This infantile sense of order tended to infect my life at large. Up at 5:30 a.m., coffee, oatmeal, perhaps sausage (homemade), and fresh eggs giving…
— Jim Harrison
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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense if quoted as…
— Robert Benchley
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At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for…
— Walt Whitman
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More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.
— Robert Penn Warren
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In high school, I went to a place called the Mountain School. It's on a farm in Vermont, and I read Emerson and Thoreau and…
— Nick Kroll
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Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.--Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.
— Robert D. Richardson
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It may be that Emerson is going to hell, but of one thing I am certain; he will change the climate there, and emigration will…
— Edward Taylor
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and…
— Stephen Leacock
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You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.
— David Markson
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Even a Menno sheltered from the world knows not to stick her tongue into the mouth of a boy who owns an Air Supply record.…
— Miriam Toews
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If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
— Barbara Mertz
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Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.
— Jim Harrison
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Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night,…
— Paul Hawken
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Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson." "Lake…
— Louise Penny
Who Wrote These Emerson Quotes
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