Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 6

American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A great man is always willing to be little.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sincerity is the highest compliment you can pay.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Fame is proof that people are gullible.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. The Conservative
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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

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What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Good men must not obey the laws too much.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
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