Best Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes and Quotations

Best Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes and Quotations

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts
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To fill the hour that is happiness
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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Hitch your wagon to a star.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered
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There are always two parties; the establishment and the movement.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
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The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, of the merchants a merchant.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one
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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path
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When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it
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The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
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The world belongs to the energetic.
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These days come and go, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
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Sprinkle joy.
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Things are in the saddle, and ride mankind.
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If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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