Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our best thoughts come from others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is the hope of the heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one before whom you may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between two people.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a…
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rings and jewels are not gifts but apologies for gifts. The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
United States! Go put your creed into your deed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage consists in the power of self-recovery.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hero is no braver than an ordinary person, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a festival only to the wise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many…
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we…
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills…
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People only see what they are prepared to see.