Ralph Waldo Emerson

b. 1803; d. 1882 · 20 aphorisms · no comments

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Edit Comment# · Fair (152 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure

Edit Comment# · Fair (140 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Happiness and Misery

Edit Comment# · Fair (83 ratings) · submitted 1998

Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Edit Comment# · Fair (101 ratings) · submitted 1997

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Love and Hate

Edit Comment# · Fair (106 ratings) · submitted 1997

All mankind loves a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Love and Hate

Edit Comment# · Fair (137 ratings) · submitted 1997

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in War and Peace

Edit Comment# · Fair (44 ratings) · submitted 1997

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Edit Comment# · Fair (95 ratings) · submitted 1997

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Science and Religion

Edit Comment# · Fair (47 ratings) · submitted 1997

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure

Edit Comment# · Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·

I hate quotations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Edit Comment# · Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997

No man can get through me but through my act.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure

Edit Comment# · Fair (59 ratings) · submitted 1997

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Happiness and Misery

Edit Comment# · Fair (56 ratings) · submitted 1997

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure

Edit Comment# · Fair (72 ratings) · submitted 1997

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Edit Comment# · Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confessor of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Edit Comment# · Fair (61 ratings) · submitted 1997

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Happiness and Misery

Edit Comment# · Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Edit Comment# · Fair (146 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in War and Peace

Edit Comment# · Fair (59 ratings) · submitted 1997

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Edit Comment# · Fair (71 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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