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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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Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. Ralph Waldo Emerson
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The divine bards are the friends of my virtue, of my intellect, of my strength. They admonish me that the gleams which flash across my mind are not mine, but God's; they had the like, and were not disobedient to the heavenly vision Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Be good to your work, your word, and your friend."
Be good to your work, your word, and your friend. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own? Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends,..."
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Ralph Waldo Emerson
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man..."
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "A sunset a forest a snow storm a certain river view are more..."
A sunset a forest a snow storm a certain river view are more to me than many friends. Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has... Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past? Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation."
A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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