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“The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one” and other Quotes by American Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson is a well-known American thinker, essayist and poet. He was born in Massachusetts on May 25, 1803. He died April 27, 1882 at the age of 78.
Emerson is well-known as one leader of the Transcendentalist movement.
Emerson was a talented writer and is very often quoted in speeches and in print. We have arranged several of his most famous quotes for your pleasure.
And Now The Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes …
Children are all foreigners.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
We become what we think about all day long.
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could some blunders and absurdities have crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind.
Never read a book that is not a year old.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.
Thought is the seed of action.
Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.
What we call results are beginnings.
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends.
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
I used to always think that I’d look back on us crying and laugh, but, I never thought I’d look back on us laughing and cry.
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