American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet.
All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fame is proof that people are gullible. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
When 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 Emerson
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms. – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sincerity is the highest compliment you can pay. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. The Conservative – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings. – 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
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