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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Solitude

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You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.12, Penguin

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.21, Courier Corporation

Isolation must precede true society.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.140, Harvard University Press

Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.83, Harvard University Press

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.83, Harvard University Press

We never touch but at points.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.279, Harvard University Press

Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.107, Рипол Классик

Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1028, Library of America

The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2744, Delphi Classics

But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.19, Penguin

My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.347, Рипол Классик

We walk alone in the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.125, Harvard University Press

Two touch the string, The harp is dumb.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.152, The Floating Press