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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
It was high
counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you
are afraid to do.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Judge of your
natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is
knowing that we cannot know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let every man
shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me never fall
into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am
contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us be silent,
that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life consists in
what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love of beauty is
taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make the most of
yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make yourself
necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manners require
time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men achieve a
certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are what their
mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men love to
wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money often costs
too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature always
wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature and books
belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature hates
calculators.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is a
mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
New York is a
sucked orange.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Night hovers all
day in the boughs of the fir tree.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No change of
circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No great man ever
complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man ever prayed
heartily without learning something.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nobody can bring
you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing astonishes
men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great was
ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is at last
sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One must be an
inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as
creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our best thoughts
come from others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our chief want is
someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our greatest glory
is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace cannot be
achieved through violence, it can only be attained through
understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People only see
what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People that seem
so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People with great
gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perpetual
modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pictures must not
be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reality is a
sliding door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Revolutions go not
backward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science does not
know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow men
believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society is always
taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some books leave
us free and some books make us free.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes a scream
is better than a thesis.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ancestor of
every action is a thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The believing we
do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best effort of
a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The civilized man
has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The creation of a
thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The desire of gold
is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end of the
human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first wealth
is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fox has many
tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest gift
is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The invariable
mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The louder he
talked of his honor the faster we counted our spoons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man of genius
inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The method of
nature: who could ever analyze it?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The miracles of
genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to
have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real and
lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The revelation of
thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reward of a
thing well done is having done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sky is the
daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sum of wisdom
is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The value of a
dollar is social, as it is created by society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The value of a
principle is the number of things it will explain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The whole secret
of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that man are convertible.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is all
gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The years teach
much which the days never knew.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Then beauty is its
own excuse for being.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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