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“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air” and other Quotations by American Essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson is a well-known American poet, philosopher and author. Emerson was born on May 25, 1803. Emerson died April 27, 1882 at the age of 78 in Concord, Massachusetts.
Emerson is remembered as one leader of the Transcendentalist movement.
Emerson was a gifted writer and orator and is very often quoted in print and in speeches. We have arranged some of his more famous quotes for your reading pleasure.
And Now The Famous Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes …
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
The reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
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.
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
As we grow old … the beauty steals inward.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.
Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
They say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.
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.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Insist on yourself never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession… Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
In England every man you meet is some man’s son in America, he may be some man’s father.
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