American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet.
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear always springs from ignorance. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
All is riddle and the key to a riddle, is another riddle. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. – 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
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
You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
All promise outruns performance. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Insist upon yourself. Be original. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. – 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
Science does not know its debt to imagination. -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
Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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