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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«You cannot see the mountain near»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Vision
| Keywords:
mountain, near, the Mountain
«We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
at last, bag, colleges, college student, come out, fifteen, recitation, rooms, schools, school year, shut, shut up, students
«From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all»
«Imitation is suicide»
«Who loses a day loses life»
«If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.»
«Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present»
«Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
condense, condensed, electrified, electrify, electrifying, glowing, symbol
«The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Experience
| Keywords:
confession, Confessions, poet, requires, The Confession, waiting
«Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
balls, ball up, cannon, cannons, cannon ball, contradict, contradicted, contradicting, morrow, morrows, On The Ball
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