Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food and an immense quit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our
own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness
the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and
absurdities no doubt crept in - forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you
shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with
a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The task ahead is never as great as the power behind us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and
Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit
that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry,
fret and anxiety.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and
sparkles with light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought is the seed of action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts
rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to
this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on,
die on the first inch of your territory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a festival only to the wise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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