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Category: Ralph Waldo Emerson

12 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Earth laughs in flowers.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our best thoughts come from others.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening, only with his legs.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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