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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Poet
Born: May 25, 1803
Died: Apr 27, 1882
Every Great Life Man Men You
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman E. E. Cummings
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Old Beauty Steals Inward Grow
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Value Society Dollar Social Created
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature State Our Observers Learners Permanent Thereby
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith Our Habitual Vice Moments
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love Truth Truth Is Goodness Edge Else Must Some None Affectation Than Your
Nothing external to you has any power over you. Ralph Waldo Emerson
You Power Nothing Over Any External
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Relation Minister Delight Occult Greatest Woods Which Fields Suggestion
Pictures must not be too picturesque. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art Too Must Pictures Picturesque
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice? Ralph Waldo Emerson
Word One Word Volumes Why Suffice Need
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time Me Mine Possession All-Time Becomes Understands Hears Who
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Will Value Principle Explain Things Number
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Positive Life Death Good Man Evil Cold Benevolence Hath Absolute He Merely Like Real Heat Which Much
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man Hate Giving Unless Accompanies Hand Whole
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love Day Nature Live Corn Hostility Like Expand Child Warm
A good indignation brings out all one's powers. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good Out Indignation Powers Brings
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. Ralph Waldo Emerson
World Better Path Will Build Beat Mousetrap Door Your
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love Science Men Seed Wonder
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else. Ralph Waldo Emerson
People Glorious Else Everyone Everyone Else Seem Like Underneath Show
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man Happy Unhappy Hearing Speaking
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship Good Soul Too Immortality Like Believed
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yourself Somebody Make Necessary
The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time Soul Space Sentiment Circumstance Out Out Of Time Moral Intuition Insight Laws Perfection Execute Subject Themselves
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work Best Gay Man Peace Heart Otherwise Relieved Give Shall He Put Him Said His Done
Reality is a sliding door. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reality Sliding Door
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Game Thought Every Other Related Side Sides Find Morals Given Fact Upper Sensation Appearance Two
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Me You Must Would Higher Lift Up Ground
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