Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth, Beautiful, Doubt

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Minds, Foolish, Statesmen

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, Friends, Growth

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Mind, Event

A great man is always willing to be little.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Earth, Flowers

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, Nature, Friend

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art, Heart, Hand

All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love, Mankind, Lover

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character, Opinion, Realize

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust, Great, Men

Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Saying, Hear, Speaks

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust, End, Reason

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science, Good, Bad

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intelligence, Working, Sense

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Morning, Evening, Whole

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change, Character, Repair

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hero, Brave, Longer

We must be our own before we can be another's.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before, Another

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage, Great, Done

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great, Death, Sun

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great, Mother, Nothing

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Someone, Inspire, Chief

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Beautiful, Help

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 25, 1803

Died: April 27, 1882

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