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Quotes from Literary Ethics — Ralph Waldo Emerson

1803–1882 United States

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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Literary Ethics (1838)

You will hear every day the maxims of a low prudence.

Literary Ethics (1838)

Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.

Literary Ethics (1838)

Thought is all light, and publishes itself to the universe. It will speak, though you were dumb, by its own miraculous organ.

Literary Ethics (1838)

Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism.

Literary Ethics (1838)

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