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There are 336 quotes for the author Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotations 261 to 280 of 336 Results Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

Children are all foreigners.
Subject: Children

If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

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

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.

All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

Next to the originator of a sentence is the first quoter of it.

Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

If the Stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.

Self-truth is the essence of heroism.

Quotations 261 to 280 of 336
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