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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
-- C E Coghill
Famous Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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- Topic: Intellect
'Tis good-will makes intelligence.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson - Topic: Children
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson - Topic: Youth
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson - Topic: Cynic
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson - Topic: Consistency
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson - Topic: Hate
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson - Topic: Obstacles
A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson - Topic: Motive
A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson - Topic: Courage
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson - Topic: Harmony
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson - Topic: Nature
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson - Topic: Home
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson - Topic: Debt
A man in debt is so far a slave.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson - Topic: History
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson - Topic: Anger
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson - Topic: Anger
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson - Topic: Conformity
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson - Topic: Friendship
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson - Topic: Fault
A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson - Topic: Voice
A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson