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The quotations of

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American philosopher

1803–1882

102 quotes, most often on Friendship, Nature and Beauty. Part of the Poets collection.

God enters by a private door into every individual.
Essays, Intellect.
- God
For what are they all in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?
Poems (1847), Good-bye, st. 4
- God
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!
Nature (1836), Nature
- God
- Nature
They reckon ill who leave me out;
When me they fly, I am the wings;
I am the doubter and the doubt,
And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Brahma (1857)In context
- God
- Religion

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