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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes and Sayings (3)
Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.
We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe.
All is system and gradation.
Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If in the least particular, one could
derange the order of nature,
who would accept the gift of life?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty without expression is boring.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the uttermost meaning of the words,
thought is devout, and devotion is thought.
Deep calls unto deep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind,
and that state of the mind can only be described
by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are what their mothers made them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words are also actions,
and actions are a kind of words.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed
in a prior state of existence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization
is the influence of good women.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There was never a child so lovely
but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every artist was first an amateur.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The value of a dollar is social,
as it is created by society.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are born believing.
A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy,
that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
America is another name for opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The desire of gold is not for gold.
It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men's actions are too strong for them.
Show me a man who has acted,
and who has not been the victim
and slave of his action.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some books leave us free
and some books make us free.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is all gates, all opportunities,
strings of tension waiting to be struck.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children are all foreigners.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are a puny and fickle folk.
Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is also something excellent in every audience,
the capacity of virtue.
They are ready to be beatified.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth.
It makes all things alive and significant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why the world lacks unity,
and lies broken and in heaps,
is, because man is disunited with himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love of beauty is taste.
The creation of beauty is art.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end of the human race will be that
it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The civilized man has built a coach,
but has lost the use of his feet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle,
gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every burned book enlightens the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are eyes, to be sure,
that give no more admission
into the man than blueberries.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is an outward gift,
which is seldom despised,
except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer.
He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is a god in ruins.
When men are innocent, life shall be longer,
and shall pass into the immortal,
as gently as we awake from dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of the shadows of life are caused
by standing in our own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power and speed be hands and feet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is always safety in valor.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every spirit makes its house,
and we can give a shrewd guess
from the house to the inhabitant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our admiration of the antique
is not admiration of the old,
but of the natural.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we tire of the saints,
Shakespeare is our city of refuge.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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