Ralph Waldo Emerson

(born 1803; died 1882)

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. [Select]

{Category: Love and Hate}

All mankind loves a lover. [Select]

{Category: Love and Hate}

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

{Category: War and Peace}

Every man I meet is in some way my superior. [Select]

{Category: Wisdom and Ignorance}

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

{Category: Science and Religion}

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. [Select]

{Category: Wisdom and Ignorance}

Hitch your wagon to a star. [Select]

{Category: Success and Failure}

I hate quotations. [Select]

{Category: Wisdom and Ignorance}

No man can get through me but through my act. [Select]

{Category: Success and Failure}

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. [Select]

{Category: Happiness and Misery}

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. [Select]

{Category: Success and Failure}

People only see what they are prepared to see. [Select]

{Category: Wisdom and Ignorance}

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

{Category: Wisdom and Ignorance}

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

{Category: Happiness and Misery}

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. [Select]

{Category: Wisdom and Ignorance}

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

{Category: War and Peace}

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

{Categories: Success and Failure, Work and Recreation}

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. [Select]

{Category: Wisdom and Ignorance}

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

{Category: Success and Failure}

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

{Category: Happiness and Misery}

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