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“People only see what they are prepared to see” and other Quotations by Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson is a well-known American essayist, thinker and poetauthor, poet and thinker. He was born in Massachusetts in May 1803. Emerson died in 1882 at the age of 78 in Massachusetts.

Emerson is famous as one thought-leader of the American Transcendentalist movement.

Emerson was a gifted writer and is often quoted in speeches and in print. We have collected a collection of his more famous quotations for your pleasure.

And Now The Famous Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man….such a man is a true gentleman.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well — he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.

If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.

To fill the hour-that is happiness.

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a God playing the fool.

Character is what can do without success.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes

Each man has his own vocation his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

Thought is the seed of action.

It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them.

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

In the woods is perpetual youth.

Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

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.

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