Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Pictures must not be too picturesque."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Beauty without expression is boring."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"As we grow old, the beauty steals inward."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our best thoughts come from others."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change."

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"A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before."

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"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"The years teach much which the days never know."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"God enters by a private door into every individual."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual."

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"The faith that stands on authority is not faith."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."

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"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"The first wealth is health."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"God enters by a private door into every individual."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The highest revelation is that God is in every man."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"God screens us evermore from premature ideas."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A good indignation brings out all one's powers."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Good men must not obey the laws too well."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A great man is always willing to be little."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To be great is to be misunderstood."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson