Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes And Sayings

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“The years teach much the days never know.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.”
– 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

“There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the worlds opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
– 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

“What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is 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, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.”
– 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

“Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Scatter joy!”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Tis the good reader that makes the good book.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your hear that every day is the best day of the year.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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