A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
America is another name for opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as there is life there is danger.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty without expression is boring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children are all foreigners.
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
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power and speed be hands and feet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are wiser than we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must be our own before we can be another's.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
