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Ralph Waldo Emerson

American philosopher

1803–1882

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

Life is a festival only to the wise.
- Life & Death
- Wisdom
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
Essays
- Wisdom
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Wisdom
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
The Method of Nature (1841), p. 25
- Love
- Wisdom
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Self-Reliance (1841)In context
- Character
- Wisdom
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Self-Reliance (1841)In context
- Thinking
- Wisdom

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