Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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If a man owns land, the land owns him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All promise outruns performance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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The greatest man in history was the poorest.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We as for long life, but ’tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To the dull mind nature is leaden; To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The basis of good manners is self reliance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson