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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Read through the most famous quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson




Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#inspirational #self-improvement #inspirational

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#work #motivational

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#risk-taking #timidity #experience

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#adopt #her #nature #pace #patience

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


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#how #kindness #know #late #never

The only way to have a friend is to be one.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#friend #only #way

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#inspirational #inspirational

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#intelligence #wisdom #intelligence

A great man is always willing to be little.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#greatness #humbleness #humility #modesty #size

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#causation #cause-and-effect #chance #darwinism #inspirational






About Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes




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Emerson. Emancipation is the demand of civilization". I wish to learn this language not that I may know a new grammar but that I may read the great book that is written in that tongue.

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His essays remain among the linchpins of American thinking[citation needed] and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers writers and poets that have followed him. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of publiRalph Waldo Emersond essays and more than 1500 public lectures across the United States. Together with Nature these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period.

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