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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes


Wisdom from the great American poet and transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson Quotes

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Poems on Life


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The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

Poems on Truth

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We become what we think about all day long.

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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

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There is no knowledge that is not power.

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The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

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Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist.

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

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

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

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Heroism feels and never reasons and is therefore always right.

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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

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


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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Poems about the World

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My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.

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We walk alone in the world.

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Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

Poems on Friendship

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The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion.

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Our faith comes in moments, yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

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Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of somebody's enthusiasm.

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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

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