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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 221 Jahre, 3 Monate, 21 Tage oder 80.833 Tage alt.

Geboren am 25.05.1803 in Boston
Gestorben am 27.04.1882 in Concord/Massachusetts
Sternzeichen: ♊ Zwillinge

• When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

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• When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

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• When you strike at a king, you must kill him.

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• Who so would be a man must be a non-conformist.

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• Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill.

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• Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a wihle, as glasses being rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

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• Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come. But whence and when: Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

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• Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

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• Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.

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• Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.

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• Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

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• Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

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• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

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• You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

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• C'est l'infortune du penseur que ses vertus existent tout entières sur le papier.

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• C'est le privilège de l'art de jouer son rôle joyeux, d'acclimater l'homme sur terre d'accommoder l'exilé à son destin et, fondu en un seul amalgame avec les jours et le firmament, de lui apprendre à les gravir pour vivre en égal avec le Temps.

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• C'est une loi de notre nature que les grandes pensées viennent du cœur.

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• Dans son assaut contre le royaume des ténèbres, maint réformateur use toute son énergie contre quelque mal accidentel.

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• Deux peuvent parler et le troisième écouter, mais trois personnes ne peuvent prendre part à une conversation sincère et profonde.

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• Félicitez-vous d'avoir fait quelque chose d'étrange et d'extravagant qui a brisé la monotonie de votre époque.

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