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Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He is recognized for his writing style, which brings forth an elevated language using metaphors, similes and uncommon word choice. His works express a philosophical viewpoint that values the individual over society. By means of his own experience in life, along with his methodical observations of his surroundings, he tried to convey ideas that would help guide others through their own experiences and problems.
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"The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Pictures must not be too picturesque."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Every artist was first an amateur."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Beauty without expression is boring."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"The years teach much which the days never know."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"The faith that stands on authority is not faith."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"God enters by a private door into every individual."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Always do what you are afraid to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
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 man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"A good indignation brings out all one's powers."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"To be great is to be misunderstood."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"A great man is always willing to be little."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"The first wealth is health."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Science does not know its debt to imagination."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Genius always finds itself a century too early."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Men are what their mothers made them."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Money often costs too much."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"A man in debt is so far a slave."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"We aim above the mark to hit the mark."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Hitch your wagon to a star."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"We acquire the strength we have overcome."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"We gain the strength of the temptation we resist."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"We are wiser than we know."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"The earth laughs in flowers."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"What is a weed. A plant whose virtues have never been discovered."
Ralph Waldo Emerson