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“Who so would be a man, must be a nonconformist”: Well-Known Quotes by Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson is a well-known American thinker, writer and poet. Emerson was born in Massachusetts in 1803. Ralph Waldo Emerson died April 1882 in Concord, Massachusetts.
Emerson is remembered as one thought-leader of the Transcendentalist movement.
Emerson was a well-regarded writer and orator and is very often quoted in speeches and in print. We have arranged several of his most famous quotations for your reading pleasure.
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes …
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Character is higher than intellect… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
We are prisoners of ideas.
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.
The years teach much which the days never knew.
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.
Character is what can do without success.
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.
Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions the surest poison is time.
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.
A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Fame is proof that people are gullible.
Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
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