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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes & Sayings

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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