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Ralph Waldo Emerson war US-amerikanischer Philosoph und Schriftsteller. Zitate auf Englisch.
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“Money often costs too much.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson buch The Conduct of Life

The Conduct of Life, Chapter 3, “Wealth,” p. 107

“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quelle: Nature and Selected Essays

“Hitch your wagon to a star.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Civilization
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Demonology
1880s, Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1883)

“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Progress of Culture Phi Beta Kappa Address (July 18, 1867) <br class="br">1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=category&amp;sectionid=5&amp;id=74&amp;Itemid=149 (1876)

“Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)”

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Quelle: Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.”

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Quelle: Self Reliance

“Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Art

“Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson buch Essays: First Series

Quelle: Essays: First Series

“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson