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“Who so would be a man, must be a nonconformist”: A Small Collection of Famous Quotes by American Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson is a well-known US poet, philosopher and author. He was born in Massachusetts on May 25, 1803. Emerson died April 1882 at the age of 78 in Concord, Massachusetts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson is remembered as one leader of the Transcendentalist movement.
Emerson was a well-regarded writer and orator and is very often quoted in print and in speeches. We have collected here several of his most famous quotes for your enjoyment.
The Famous Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson …
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
I hate quotations.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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.
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.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to me appearAnd one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
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.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better.
Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Adopt the pace of nature.
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