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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

American Poet, Writer, Philosopher May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882

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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them..."
My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of..."
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford..."
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes; and though they know us, and have been waiting two, ten, or twenty centuries for us,—some of them,—and are eager to give us a sign and unbosom themselves, it is the law of their limbo that they must not speak until spoken to; and as the enchanter has dressed them, like battalions of infantry, in coat and jacket of one cut, by the thousand and ten... Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "To fill the hour - that is happiness, to fill the hour and..."
To fill the hour - that is happiness, to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man."
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "It is a happy talent to know how to play."
It is a happy talent to know how to play. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without..."
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must..."
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "To fill the hourthat is happiness."
To fill the hourthat is happiness. Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use. 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
I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested--'But these impulses may be from below, not from above.' I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live them from the devil. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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