Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Biography: Ralph Waldo Emerson is known for being a leading 19th-century American... more Biography: Ralph Waldo Emerson is known for being a leading 19th-century American transcendentalist philosopher, essayist, and poet. He championed individualism and self-reliance, delivering profound works like "Nature" and "Self-Reliance." His ideas profoundly influenced American thought and literature. less

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars""An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory""Knowledge is the antidote to fear""The first wealth is health""Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail""To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment""The sky is the daily bread of the eyes""Beauty without expression is boring""A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer""The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn""You become what you think about all day long""To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived This is to have succeeded""In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows""Without ambition one starts nothing Without work one finishes nothing The prize will not be sent to you You have to win it""Men are what their mothers made them""Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not""Life is a journey, not a destination.""The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. ""To be great is to be misunderstood. ""Character is higher than intellect. "

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