“Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know”: A Small Collection of Well-Known Quotations by American Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson is a famous American essayist, thinker and poetauthor, poet and thinker. He was born in Massachusetts on May 25, 1803. Ralph Waldo Emerson died April 27, 1882 at the age of 78.
Emerson is well-known as one leader of the Transcendentalist movement.
Emerson was a well-regarded writer and is still often quoted in speeches and in print. We have arranged some of his most famous quotations for your reading pleasure.
The Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
The reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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?
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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.
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
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.
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
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.
Nature hates calculators.
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
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.
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else and for everything you gain, you lose something.
Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
Be and not seem.
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
Insist on yourself never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession… Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
The education of the will is the object of our existence.
Fame is proof that people are gullible.
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
Give all to love obey thy heart.
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