" …the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance (essay) US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. "

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)

" Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. "

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

" A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply. "

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

" We do what we must, and call it by the best names. "

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

" People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. "

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

" The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. "

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

" Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity. "

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

" The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. "

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

" Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday. "

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

" Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same. "

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

" Who so would be a man, must be a nonconformist. "

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

" Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876 US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air

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

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

" Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876 US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance. "

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

" Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds. "

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

" I hate quotations. "

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

" As soon as there is life there is danger. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude (1870) US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

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

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

" Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself. "

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841 US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" We become what we think about all day long. "

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

" In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876 US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. "

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

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

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

" The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter. "

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

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