Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
All mankind love a lover.
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Every wall is a door.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Men are what their mothers made them.
Money often costs too much.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Our best thoughts come from others.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
What you are comes to you.
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
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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.
When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
The world belongs to the energetic.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
All mankind love a lover.
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Every wall is a door.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Men are what their mothers made them.
Money often costs too much.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Our best thoughts come from others.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
What you are comes to you.
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson/
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.
When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
The world belongs to the energetic.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.
http://grammar.about.com/od/60essays/a/selfrelianessay.htm
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