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“Always do what you are afraid to do” and other Quotes by American Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson is a well-known American thinker, poet and author. Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 25, 1803. He died in 1882 at the age of 78 in Concord, Massachusetts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson is famous as one thought-leader of the American Transcendentalist movement.
Emerson was a gifted writer and orator and is still often quoted in speeches and in print. We have arranged some of his more famous quotes for your reading pleasure.
A collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes …
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
The world belongs to the energetic.
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
A good intention but fixed and resolute – bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us “like the fabled specter-ships,” which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.
Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a hundred years hence.
Money often costs too much.
Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Character is what can do without success.
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better.
What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius.
Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
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