Ralph Waldo Emerson
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's 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 EmersonAll men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo EmersonCharacter is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEnthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo EmersonInsist upon yourself. Be original.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFinish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGod enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWho you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSolitude, the safeguard of mediocrity.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFor every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTalent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.
Ralph Waldo EmersonImmortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPeople wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOur life is not so much threatened, As our perception.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWork and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe all boil at different degrees.
Ralph Waldo Emerson...the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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