American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet.
Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every really able man, in whatever direction he work,-a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter,-if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
How much of human life is lost in waiting. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle – Ralph Waldo Emerson
All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
When it is darkest, men see the stars. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
One man’s justice is another’s Injustice. One man’s beauty another’s ugliness. One man’s wisdom another’s folly. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good men must not obey the laws too much. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not waste yourself in rejection; do not bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. – 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
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
Fame is proof that people are gullible. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as there is life, there is danger. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
People only see what they are prepared to see. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley. – 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.
Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
All is riddle and the key to a riddle, is another riddle. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
All great speakers were bad speakers at first. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a weed? A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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