Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom, May, Path

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

New Year's, Best, Heart

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Experiment

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, Stupid, Blessings

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yourself, Greatest, Trying

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom, Nature, Patience

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anger, Peace, Angry

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust, Seen, Creator

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Women, Age, Best

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lies, Behind, Inside

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace, Through, Cannot

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty, Love, Art

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great, Time, Greatest

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

Friendship, Friend

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intelligence, Great, Strong

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace, Yourself, Nobody

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success, Life, Lived

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Depth, Length

Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mom, Men, Mothers

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kindness, Cannot, Late

Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art, Artist, Amateur

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Strength, Men, Strong

A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Travel, Beautiful, Find

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 25, 1803

Died: April 27, 1882

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