
List of quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner."
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"Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can."
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure."
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greatest gift is a portion of thyself."
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air?"
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only gift is a portion of thyself."
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique."
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child."
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"We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When you strike at a king, you must kill him."
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny."
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary."
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live."
by Ralph Waldo Emerson