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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We may be partial, but Fate is not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We never touch but at points.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do what you're afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty rests on necessities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth it is the beginning of wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Commerce is of trivial import love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
