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“A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered” and other Quotes by Essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson is a well-known American thinker, writer and poet. He was born in Massachusetts in 1803. Emerson died April 1882 at the age of 78.
Emerson is well-known as one thought-leader of the Transcendentalist movement.
Emerson was a talented writer and is very often quoted in speeches and in print. We have arranged some of his most famous quotes for your pleasure.
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations …
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.
What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely…
Who so would be a man, must be a nonconformist.
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
There are two classes of poets – the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.
All mankind love a lover.
Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.
Never read a book that is not a year old.
Life is a progress, and not a station.
What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them.
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