Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes Born: 05/25/1803 Died: 04/27/1882 Country: usa

• Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [life]
• For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [happiness]
• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [day/day]
• Always do what you are afraid to do. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [time/fail]
• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [people/opinion/character]
• The only way to have a friend is to be one. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• Difficulties exist to be surmounted. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [truth]
• Life is a festival only to the wise. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [life]
• That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [nature/thing/power]
• I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [find]
• The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [storm/god/danger/fear]
• Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [music/wonder]
• Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [men/willpower/speak/taste]
• If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [intellect/books]
• Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [mistake]
• Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [decision/universe]
• Never read any book that is not a year old. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [high/respect/literature]
• Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [curiosity]
• It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [human/willpower]
• Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [genius/clothes]
• As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter; and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits, which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [property/willpower/willpower/willpower]
• Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [action/habit/habit/character]
• Curses always recoil on the head of him who imprecates them. If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [recoil/slave/start]
• In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [society/men]
• When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [eyes/thing/language]
• Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [willpower/high/joy/give]

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