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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
A chief event of
life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend may well
be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good indignation
brings out all one's powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great man is
always willing to be little.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great part of
courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hero is no
braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man in debt is
so far a slave.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is usually
more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is what he
thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's growth is
seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adopt the pace of
nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All diseases run
into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All I have seen
teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All life is an
experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All mankind love a
lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All sensible
people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the
terms of it fair.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always do what you
are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
America is another
name for opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An ounce of action
is worth a ton of theory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a cure for
worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as there
is life there is danger.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As we grow old,
the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bad times have a
scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be an opener of
doors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is an
outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has
been refused.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty without
expression is boring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty without
grace is the hook without the bait.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Build a better
mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
By necessity, by
proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can anything be so
elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cards were at
first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is
higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as
think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children are all
foreigners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Commerce is of
trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man,
these are sacred.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Commit a crime,
and the earth is made of glass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is
genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Culture is one
thing and varnish is another.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Curiosity is lying
in wait for every secret.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death comes to
all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until
the sun grows cold.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not go where
the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do the thing we
fear, and death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doing well is the
result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't be too timid
and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Earth laughs in
flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is the
mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every actual State
is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every artist was
first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every burned book
enlightens the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every hero becomes
a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man has his
own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of
other persons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man has his
own vocation, talent is the call.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man I meet
is in some way my superior.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is a
quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man supposes
himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every mind must
make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every natural fact
is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything in
Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one
hidden stuff.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate is nothing
but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear defeats more
people than any other one thing in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is an
instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fiction reveals
truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fine manners need
the support of fine manners in others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flowers... are a
proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the
world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Foolish
consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every benefit
you receive a tax is levied.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every minute
you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius always
finds itself a century too early.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Getting old is a
fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God enters by a
private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God screens us
evermore from premature ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good men must not
obey the laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great geniuses
have the shortest biographies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great hearts
steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great
events.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He builded better
than he knew; the conscious stone to beauty grew.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is not
everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hitch your wagon
to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate quotations.
Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate the giving
of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like the silent
church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man can...
make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would lift
me up you must be on higher ground.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In art, the hand
can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In skating over
thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the morning a
man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intellect annuls
Fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not length
of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the
blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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