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- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him."

A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor."

We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.




- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure."

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none."

Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none.




- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities."

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach."

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad."

A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.




- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread"

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven."

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions."

The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy."

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose."

There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.




- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate."

[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known."

A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man."

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them."

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all."

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands."

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "Only poetry inspires poetry."

Only poetry inspires poetry.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it."

The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!"

Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine."

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "If we live truly, we shall see truly."

If we live truly, we shall see truly.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none."

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer."

Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations."

What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark"

Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "Music causes us to think eloquently."

Music causes us to think eloquently.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it."

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness."

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity"

The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it."

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody."

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons."

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life."

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?"

Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "There is a crack in everything God has made"

There is a crack in everything God has made



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes."

Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "It is never too late to do right."

It is never too late to do right.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "Nothing can be preserved that is not good."

Nothing can be preserved that is not good.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting."

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong."

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too."

Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "If you cannot be free be as free as you can."

If you cannot be free be as free as you can.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail."

Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history."

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire."

The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.



- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: "When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation."

When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.