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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Total quotes: 12
“Sorrow looks back. Worry looks around. Faith looks up.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: worry, Sorrow, Faith
“Things always bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men
Tagged: Life
“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.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tagged: Philosophy, Psychology, The Person You'll Become
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else in the greatest accomplishment.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Introduction to Ralph Waldo Emerson — Pensive Series
Tagged: Don't Give Up, Self-Reliance, accomplishments, Be yourself
“Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
Tagged: Nature, Stream, Ripples
“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Classics)
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Classics)
“The words I and mine constitute ignorance.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men
Tagged: Life
“The cheapness of man is everyday's tragedy.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men
Tagged: Life
“The earth laughs in flowers.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tagged: Laughter, laugh, Flower, Earth
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Merlin's Song
Tagged: Writers, Life In Transit, Adventure, Architecture Of Happiness, Seasons, Sunshine, Wanderlust
“When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes and none will. His glass is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear not Jefferson, not Franklin, but now a great salesman; then a road-contractor then a student of fishes; then a buffalo hunting explorer; or a semi-savage Western General.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men
Tagged: Life
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