Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

"Can anyone remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870)


"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"What lies behind us, and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Nothing great was every achieved without enthusiasm." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Every artist was first an amateur." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"It is not length of life, but depth of life." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


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"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"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


"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; saw a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and reap a destiny." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Finish each day & be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it; tomorrow is a new day." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


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"Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson