Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we encounter a man of great intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language is fossil poetry.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is the antidote to fear.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are prisoners of ideas.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go put your creed into your deed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is higher than intellect.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do what we can summer will have its flies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We judge of man’s wisdom by his hope.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


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