Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 3

A man is what he thinks about all day long. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ancestor of every action is a thought. View quote
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It is not length of life, but depth of life. View quote
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. View quote
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Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man. View quote
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The chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do the best we can. View quote
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it. View quote
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society. View quote
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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. View quote
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The world belongs to the energetic. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. View quote
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. View quote
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. View quote
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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. View quote
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I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends. View quote
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. View quote
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Don't waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. View quote
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Greatness The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. View quote
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. View quote
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This time,like all times, is a good time, if we but know what to do with it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. View quote
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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses. View quote
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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. View quote
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. View quote
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