Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American poet, essayist, and philosopher. He was a leading figure in the 19th century Transcendentalist movement, which emphasized the importance of nature, self-reliance, and individualism. Emerson's most famous works include the poem "Concord Hymn" and the essay "Self-Reliance". Following is our collection on famous quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson on love and marriage, nature, self reliance.
It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.
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.
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson inspirational quote
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Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ornament of a house is the friend who frequent it.
Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names. — 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
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lose yourself in nature and find peace — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Self Reliance
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
This gives force to the strong -- that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Friendship
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy is the house that shelters a friend. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Gratitude
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously. — 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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not yet been discovered] — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself especially how you choose to think about your situation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Love
Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is like wildflowers;
It's often found in the most unlikely places. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, and you shall be loved. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Education
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret in education lies in respecting the student. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Success
Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patience and fortitude conquer all things. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is the engine of success. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-trust is the first secret to success. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Life
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All life is an experiment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . . — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Death
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine — Ralph Waldo Emerson
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid, Day's toil and it's guerdon, They are all vanishing, Fleeing to fables, Cannot be moored — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Inspiring
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be silly. Be honest. Be kind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not follow where the path may lead. — 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
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Philosophical
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A moody child and wildly wise
Pursued the game with joyful eyes,
Which chose, like meteors, their way,
And rived the dark with private ray. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true philosopher and the true poet are one,
and a beauty, which is truth,
and a truth, which is beauty,
is the aim of both. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterizes the people. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Refined
Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high refinement of modern life,in arts, in sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality, and a purpose; and first, last, midst, and without end, to honor every truth by use. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About World
We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world belongs to the energetic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The shot heard round the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Work
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Famous Quotes And Sayings
Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We acquire the strength we have overcome. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to have a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
People only see what they are prepared to see. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always do what you are afraid to do. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All life is an experiment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest revelation is that God is in every man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every wall is a door. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must be our own before we can be another's. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no true orator who is not a hero. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life Lessons by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson taught us to live life with purpose, to be self-reliant, and to appreciate the beauty of nature.
He also encouraged us to think independently and to trust our own intuition, rather than blindly following the crowd.
Finally, Emerson taught us to be mindful of the present moment and to strive for balance in our lives.
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