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“People only see what they are prepared to see”: A Collection of Famous Quotations by Essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson is a famous US poet, author and philosopher. Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Massachusetts in 1803. Emerson died April 27, 1882 in Massachusetts.
Emerson is well-known as one leader of the Transcendentalist movement.
Emerson was a talented writer and orator and is still often quoted in speeches and in print. We have collected several of his most famous quotations for your enjoyment.
And Now The Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations …
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air …
Imitation is suicide.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Work is victory.
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.
All life is an experiment.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better.
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,-all duties even.
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Fame is proof that people are gullible.
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
Character is higher than intellect… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
Adopt the pace of nature.
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius.
As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward.
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