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Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

American essayist and poet (1803-1882), a leading voice of Transcendentalism.

• The years teach much which the days never know

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• We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

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• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

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• Every artist was first an amateur.

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• Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

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• The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary.

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• The soul is superior to its knowledge, wiser than any of its works.

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• The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom.

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• No man can learn what he has not preparation for learning, however near to his eyes is the object.

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• Every ultimate fact is only the first of a new series.

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• Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfilments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

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• The new position of the advancing man has all the powers of the old, yet has them all new.

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• Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

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• The intellect is a whole and demands integrity in every work.

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• The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.

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• There is one mind common to all individual men.

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• Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing.

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