" Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal (May 1849) US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" Work is victory. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" A good intention but fixed and resolute – bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us “like the fabled specter-ships,” which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well — he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" We aim above the mark to hit the mark. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" The reward for a thing well done is to have done it. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man….such a man is a true gentleman. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1839 US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" Nothing, at last, is sacred; but the integrity of your own mind. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims (Quotation and Originality) US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" Children are all foreigners. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

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