Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes And Sayings

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“Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.”
– 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

“In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People only see what they are prepared to see.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You are constantly invited to be what you are.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love, and you shall be loved.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should. I must be myself. I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me and the heart appoints. If you are noble, I will love you; if you are not, I will not hurt you and myself by hypocritical attentions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own. I do this not selfishly but humbly and truly. It is alike your interest, and mine, and all men’s, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth. Does this sound harsh to-day? You will soon love what is dictated by your nature as well as mine, and if we follow the truth it will bring us out safe at last.—But so may you give these friends pain. Yes, but I cannot sell my liberty and my power, to save their sensibility. Besides, all persons have their moments of reason, when they look out into the region of absolute truth; then will they justify me and do the same thing.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism; and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law of consciousness abides.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”
– 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

“We are always getting ready to live but never living.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Beauty without expression is boring.”
– 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

“Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires….courage.”
– 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

“Every wall is a door.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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