Ralph Waldo Emerson
When it is darkest, men see the stars.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNature: I give to thee for thy defence Thy formidable innocence.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMen are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence
Ralph Waldo EmersonNo one ever stated their troubles As lightly as they might.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn every work of genius we see our own rejected thoughts.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPeople do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo EmersonJudge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo EmersonCharacter is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOften a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAs we grow old…the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAlways do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMen are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHe who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThey can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAdopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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