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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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I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God,..."
Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Tomorrow, a stranger will say with masterly good sense..."
Tomorrow, a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep."
She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are..."
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine."
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth; and his alert acceptance of it, from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall."
I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It facilitates labor and thought so much that there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind, and to govern by steam. But it is at frightful cost. Our modes of Education aim to expedite, to save labor; to do for masses what cannot be done for masses, what must be done reverently, one by one: say rather, the whole world is needed for the tuition of each pupil. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Turn the eye upside down, by looking at the landscape through your legs, and how agreeable is the picture, though you have seen it any time these twenty years! Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Character is that which can do without success."
Character is that which can do without success. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients."
All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Our best thoughts come from others."
Our best thoughts come from others. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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