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Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money often costs too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson