Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes | 8

Life is a progress, and not a station.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


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


There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion . . . It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


To fill the hour -- that is happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


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

All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


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



A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .
Ralph Waldo Emerson



The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
Ralph Waldo Emerson





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