Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Communication
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Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
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Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
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Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
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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.