Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes And Sayings

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“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius. ”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Thou art to me a delicious torment.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The reward of a thing well done is having done it.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Imitation is suicide.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The world belongs to the energetic.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Hitch your wagon to a star.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The ancestor of every action is a thought”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nature and books belong to all who see them.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We boil at different degrees.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going”
– 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

“Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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