Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, the practiced person relies on the language of the first.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGreat men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWithout ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side...when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time...is a very good one...
Ralph Waldo EmersonA hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThose who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNext to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEach man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well -- he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Ralph Waldo EmersonDo the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBig jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHere once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.
Ralph Waldo EmersonScience does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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