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

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every wall is a door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Power and speed be hands and feet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

America is another name for opportunity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Ralph Waldo Emerson