Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Biography : American essayist, lecturer and poet.
Born: 1803 - Died: 1882
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: United States

United States

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Quotes

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
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Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Hamatreya /

Earth laughs in flowers.

Money often costs too much.
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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Lectures - Education /

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Journals /

The years teach much which the days never know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays /

day

No man can learn what he has not preparation for learning.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Spiritual Laws /

to learn

The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - The American Scholar /

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays /

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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friendship

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature /

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Journals /

enthusiasm

The key to every man is his thought.
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thought

Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Society and Solitude /

Every man I meet is in some way my superior; and in that I can learn of him.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature /

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Finish each 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.
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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

Don't waste life in doubts and fears.
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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
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Language

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
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peace

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Journals

flower

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
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courage

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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courage

Whenever the true objects of action appear, they are to be heartily sought. Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.
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