138 quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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“The first wealth is health.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The years teach much which the days never know.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“All mankind love a lover.” — 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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“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“To be great is to be misunderstood.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“As soon as there is life there is danger.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“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

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“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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