Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate quotations.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side
Ralph Waldo EmersonNo facts to me are sacred; none are profane.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery man I meet is in some way my superior.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBe not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behaviour, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is a melody born of melody, That melts the world into a sea.
Ralph Waldo EmersonLife is a festival only to the wise
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends?
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNo change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWrite it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMoney, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBy necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPeace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo EmersonInsist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNo great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOnce you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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