Born: 25 May 1803, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Died: 27 April 1882, Concord, Massachusetts, United States
Poems: Concord Hymn, Brahma, The Rhodora, Boston Hymn, Uriel, Terminus
Essays: Self-Reliance, The Over-Soul, Compensation, The Poet, Experience
Famous Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Genius is
religious.
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2.
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Imitation
is suicide.
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3.
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Truth is
our element.
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4.
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Life is
our dictionary.
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5.
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A man is
a god in ruins.
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6.
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The first
wealth is health.
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7.
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Blame is
safer than praise.
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8.
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Money
often costs too much.
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9.
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Thought
is the seed of action.
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10.
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Every
artist was first an amateur.
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11.
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Life is a
progress, and not a station.
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12.
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This
world belongs to the energetic.
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13.
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Our
strength grows out of our weakness.
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14.
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The one
prudence in life is concentration.
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15.
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A great
man is always willing to be little.
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16.
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Do the
thing and you will have the power.
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17.
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Sometimes
a scream is better than a thesis.
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18.
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An ounce
of action is worth a ton of theory.
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19.
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Valor
consists in the power of self-recovery.
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20.
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We
acquire the strength we have overcome.
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21.
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The
reality is more excellent than the report.
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22.
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We become
what we think about all day long.
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23.
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People
only see what they are prepared to see.
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24.
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Science
does not know its debt to imagination.
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25.
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Each man
is a hero and an oracle to somebody.
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26.
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Violence
is not power, but the absence of power.
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27.
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The
reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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28.
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The years
teach much which the days never know.
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29.
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Good luck
is another name for tenacity of purpose.
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30.
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The
invariable mark of a dream is to see it come true.
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31.
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Nothing
great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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32.
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Make the
most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
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33.
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Don’t be
pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
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34.
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Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
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35.
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Beware what you set your
heart upon. For it surely shall be yours.
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36.
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Thought is the blossom;
language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
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Nothing
is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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38.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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39.
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A hero is no braver than
an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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40.
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Each of
us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.
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41.
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A cynic
can chill and dishearten with a single word.
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42.
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The eyes
indicate the antiquity of the soul.
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43.
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Common
sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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44.
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Every man
in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
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45.
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Heroism
feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
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46.
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We aim
above the mark to hit the mark.
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The
invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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48.
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For every
grain of wit there is a grain of folly.
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49.
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To fill
the hour – that is happiness.
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50.
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We are
always getting ready to live but never living.
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51.
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Nothing
astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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52.
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Happiness
is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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We must
be our own before we can be another’s.
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54.
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Without a
rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
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55.
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Peace
cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through
understanding.
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The real
and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
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57.
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Truth is
handsomer than the affectation of love.
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58.
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The love
that you withhold is the pain that you carry.
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59.
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Make
yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
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60.
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Nature
always wears the colors of the spirit.
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61.
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The earth
laughs in flowers.
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62.
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Nature is
a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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63.
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Every
sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.
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64.
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The sky
is the daily bread of the eyes.
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65.
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Beauty
without expression is boring.
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66.
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Beauty is
the mark God sets upon virtue.
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67.
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Self-command
is the main elegance.
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68.
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Self-trust
is the first secret of success.
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69.
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Discontent
is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
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70.
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Our
distrust is very expensive.
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71.
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Fear is
an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
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72.
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He who is
not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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73.
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Whatever
limits us we call fate.
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74.
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The
characteristic of a genuine heroism is its persistency.
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75.
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The best
lightening rod for your protection is your own spine.
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