Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes (Page 2)

The only way to have a friend is to be one. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


God enters by a private door into each individual. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


To Be is to live with God.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Knowledge is the antidote to fear.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Hitch your wagon to a star. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Patience and fortitude conquer all things. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


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