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Quotes from Lectures and Biographical Sketches — Ralph Waldo Emerson

1803–1882 United States

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

Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1883)

I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion.

Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1883)

Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1883)

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1883)

To live without duties is obscene.

Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1883)

There are men who astonish and delight, men who instruct and guide. Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1883)

I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no, nor the language the actors spoke, nor the religion which they professed whether Arab in the desert or Frenchman in the Academy, I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion.

Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1883)

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