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Ralph Waldo Emerson Biography
- Full Name : Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Born : May 25, 1803 (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S)
- Dead : April 27, 1882 (Concord, Massachusetts, U.S)
- Nationality : American
- Profession : Author, Poet, philosopher and Essayist.
- Education : Harvard College.
- Awards : Hall of Fame.
- Spouse : Ellen Louisa Tucker.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Books
- Self-Reliance.
- The Conduct of Life.
- English Traits.
- Address at Divinity College.
- The American Scholar.
- Representative Men.
Facts About Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson was known as The Sage of Concord.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson was a leader in the Transcendentalism movement in America.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson married twice.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson was a boy genius.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson hailed President Abraham Lincoln after criticizing him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson ran a school for girls.
- Ralph Emerson Waldo was an Ordained Unitarian Minister.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson was influenced by the culture, philosophies and writings of Asia and the Middle East.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson greatly influenced Henry David Thoreau.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
1. “ Life is a journey, not a destination. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. “ Be silly. Be honest. Be kind. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “ To be great is to be misunderstood. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. “ To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. “ It is not the length of life, but the depth. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. “ You become what you think about all day long. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. “ What you are comes to you. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. “ The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. “ Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. “ When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. “ Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. “ Good men must not obey the laws too well. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. “ Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. “ What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. “ Make the most of yourself….for that is all there is of you. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
16. “ What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
17. “ Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. “ Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. “ What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. “ I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. “ Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
22. “ If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
23. “ A great man is always willing to be little. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
24. “ The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
25. “ People only see what they are prepared to see. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. “ You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. “ The years teach much which the days never know. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
28. “ Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. “ As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. “ The earth laughs in flowers. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
31. “ Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. “ The reward of a thing well done is having done it. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
33. “ The only way to have a friend is to be one. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. “ Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
35. “ All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. “ Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
37. “ The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
38. “ The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
39. “ The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
40. “ Men love to wonder; that is the seed of science. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
41. “ Make yourself necessary to somebody. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
42. “ We aim above the mark to hit the mark. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. “ Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
44. “ Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. “ Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
46. “ Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it is refused. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. “ We are rich through only what we give and poor only through what we refuse. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
48. “ No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. “ All the good of nature is the soul’s, and may be had, if paid for in nature’s lawful coin, that is, by labor which the heart and the head allow. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
50. “ People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
51. “ Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
52. “ Every artist was first an amateur. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
53. “ There is creative reading as well as creative writing. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
54. “ All mankind love a lover. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
55. “ When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
56. “ Knowledge is the antidote to fear. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
57. “ Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
58. “ The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
59. “ People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
60. “ How much of human life is lost in waiting. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
61. “ Self-trust is the first secret of success. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
62. “ This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
63. “ Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
64. “ People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
65. “ The secret in education lies in respecting the student. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
66. “ Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
67. “ Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
68. “ Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
69. “ We must be our own before we can be another’s. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
70. “ Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
71. “ He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
72. “ Who you are speaks so loudly, I can’t hear what you’re saying. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
73. “ The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
74. “ In the morning, a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only in his legs. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
75. “ Win as if you were used to it; lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
76. “ Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
77. “ Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
78. “ For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
79. “ Character is higher than intellect. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
80. “ People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. ”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson