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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.


What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.


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 . . .


Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.


We boil at different degrees.


One definition of man is ''an intelligence served by organs.''


Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.


Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.


If we live truly, we shall see truly.


A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.


Wherever work is done, victory is attained.


Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.


All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.


A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Friendship Quotes

There is a crack in everything God has made.