Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best, Person, After

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lost, Feet, Coach

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great, Men, After

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society, Social, Value

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hesitation, Following, Fickle

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Born, Believing, Tree

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, State, Permanent

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Symbols, Inhabit

We are wiser than we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give, Makes, Spirit

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing, State, Fate

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

God, Ideas, Premature

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great, Men, Find

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tongue, Beast, Forest

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Society, Born

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Old, Natural, Admiration

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Analyze, Method

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Evil, Alike, Wave

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

God, Chance, Universe

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time, Same, Ourselves

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 25, 1803

Died: April 27, 1882

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