Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Je lauter er über seine Ehre sprach, desto schneller zählten wir unsere Löffel.
Informationen über Ralph Waldo Emerson
Theologe, Pfarrer, Schriftsteller, "Conduct Of Life", gilt als der bedeutendste amerikanische Philosoph (USA, 1803 - 1882).
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Ralph Waldo Emerson wäre heute 220 Jahre, 11 Monate, 22 Tage oder 80.712 Tage alt.
Geboren am 25.05.1803 in Boston
Gestorben am 27.04.1882 in Concord/Massachusetts
Sternzeichen: ♊ Zwillinge
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Weitere 741 Zitate von Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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No man is quite sane. Each has a vein of folly in his composition - a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which he has taken to heart.
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No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby, - so helpless and ridiculous.
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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
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No sensible person ever made an apology.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep.
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Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are. To be out of the war, out of debt, out of the drouth, out of the blues, out of the dentist's hands, out of the second thoughts, mortifications, and remorses that inflict such twinges and shooting pains, - out of thenext winter, and the high prices, and company below your ambition, - surely these are soothing hints.
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Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.
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One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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Our dissatisfaction with any other solution is the blazing evidence of immortality.
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People see only what they are prepared to see.
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People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.