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“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air ..”: A Small Collection of Legendary Quotes by American Essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson is a well-known US thinker, writer and poet. He was born in 1803. Emerson died in 1882 in Concord, Massachusetts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson is famous as one leader of the American Transcendentalist movement.

Emerson was a well-regarded writer and is very often quoted. We have collected here some of his more famous quotes for your pleasure.

The Famous Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations …

Children are all foreigners.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say.

Nothing, at last, is sacred; but the integrity of your own mind.

I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch of a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a hundred years hence.

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

Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.

The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.

Love and you shall be loved.

No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man’s genius contracts itself to a very few hours.

Give all to love obey thy heart.

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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