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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American
Poet
Born:
May 25
,
1803
Died:
Apr 27
,
1882
Every
Great
Life
Man
Men
You
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom
Strength
Temptation
Gain
Resist
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You
Lose
Else
Everything
Something
Something Else
Missed
Gain
Gained
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
Health
Tired
Long
Enough
Eye
Horizon
See
Seems
Never
Demand
Far
We must be our own before we can be another's.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Brainy
Before
Own
Our
Must
Another
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life
Key
Life Is A
Must
Another
Understood
Which
Succession
Riddle
Lessons
Lived
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You
Change
Win
Lose
Were
Used
Enjoyed
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great
Mother
Enthusiasm
Nothing
Without
Effort
Achieved
Ever
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good
Capitalism
Result
About
Well
Doing
Doing Good
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death
Great
Build
Cold
Monument
Sun
Shall
Until
Achievements
Endure
Which
Grows
Great Achievements
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life
Maturity
Plant
Single
Live
Flower
Tree
Air
Earth
Hundreds
At Least One
Thousands
Seed
Seeds
Parent
Casting
Vegetable
Tens
Come
Perish
Content
Does
Least
Up
Itself
Replace
May
Themselves
Fills
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man
Long
Own
Everything
Way
Seems
His
His Way
Stands
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Morning
Man
Walks
Only
His
Legs
Body
Whole
Evening
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silent
Hear
Gods
May
Us
Let Us
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
Man
Book
Every
Ancestors
Mines
Out
House
His
Forests
Stone
Quotation
Every Man
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom
Great
Power
Before
Must
Great Power
Well
Acquire
Use
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good
Obey
Men
Every
Too
State
Good Men
Must
Corrupt
Laws
Well
Actual
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Illusion
Every
Meet
About
Optical
Person
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Me
You
Hate
Tell
Know
Quotations
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
Life
Beautiful
Try
No-One
Sincerely
Himself
Another
Without
Help
Helping
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gift
Greatest Gift
Thyself
Greatest
Portion
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time
Nothing
Manners
Haste
More
Vulgar
Than
Require
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great
Spiritual
Thoughts
World
Men
Stronger
Rule
See
Great Men
Force
Material
Than
Any
Who
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life
Man
Rest
Master
Furnish
Fine
He
Days
House
Builds
Repair
His
Task
Show
Keep
Now
Watch
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character
People
Confession
World
See
Seem
Also
Opinion
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grace
Beauty
Hook
Bait
Without
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time
Big
Worries
Minds
No Time
Little
Little Minds
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