Memorable Quotes and quotations from Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)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 - - Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson - The Method of Nature (1841) - 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 end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Children are all foreigners. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Ralph Waldo Emerson - "Self-Reliance", 1841 - Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Letters and Social Aims (Quotation and Originality) - Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - He is great who confers the most benefits. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - To be great is to be misunderstood. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841 - Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Nature hates calculators. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self-Reliance - It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health. Ralph Waldo Emerson - quoting a friend - Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - We are prisoners of ideas. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Society and Solitude (1870) - As soon as there is life there is danger. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Nothing, at last, is sacred; but the integrity of your own mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Journal (May 1849) - Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Self-trust is the essence of heroism Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - When you strike at a king, you must kill him. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - God enters by a private door into every individual. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Address on The Method of Nature, 1841 - 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 - - People only see what they are prepared to see. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876 - Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self-Reliance - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - We do what we must, and call it by the best names. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The faith that stand on authority is not faith. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. 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 - - Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Ralph Waldo Emerson - An Essay on Self-Reliance - To be great is to be misunderstood. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876 - Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Imitation is suicide. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essay: Nature - To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain. Ralph Waldo Emerson - "Nature" - The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child. Ralph Waldo Emerson - New England Reformers, 1844 - Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness. Ralph Waldo Emerson - "The Rhodora" - If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - I hate quotations. 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 best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Do what you know and perception is converted into character. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876 - Every artist was first an amateur. 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 - - The first wealth is health. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well -- he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends? Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Who so would be a man, must be a nonconformist. Ralph Waldo Emerson - "American Civilization", The Atlantic Monthly, 1862 - Hitch your wagon to a star. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The world belongs to the energetic. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch of a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Always do what you are afraid to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Society and Solitude - The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops?no, but the kind of man the country turns out. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The less government we have the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. Ralph Waldo Emerson - (attributed) - Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. 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 - - 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 - - Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Work is victory. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - We become what we think about all day long. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Common sense is as rare as genius. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The ancestor of every action is a thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show for any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The reward for a thing well done is to have done it. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The greatest gift is a portion of thyself. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Every hero becomes a bore at last. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self Reliance - Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self Reliance (essay) - ...the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Give all to love; obey thy heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Every man I meet is in some way my superior. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Conduct of Life - The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Society and Solitude: Works and Days, 1870 - A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Tis the good reader that makes the good book. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The people are to be taken in very small doses. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - People only see what they are prepared to see. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The only gift is a portion of thyself. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely... Ralph Waldo Emerson - - It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876 - 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 - - To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - As we grow old?the beauty steals inward. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Journals, 1839 - The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - To be great is to be misunderstood. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Natural History of Intellect (1893) - The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - To be great is to be misunderstood. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - What a new face courage puts on everything. 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 - - Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air? Ralph Waldo Emerson - Journals, 1824 - When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - I hate quotations. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson - - Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think. |
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