Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work, Peace, Best

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change, Win, Lose

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace, War, Real

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Long, Seems, Stands

Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

End, Human, Die

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why, Broken, Reason

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Dreams, God

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Selfish, Fail, Aim

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creation, Thousand, Forests

Every wall is a door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Character, Opinion, Seem

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you are comes to you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom, Means, Desire

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily, Eyes, Sky

A man in debt is so far a slave.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Far, Debt, Slave

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty, Grace, Hook

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage, Himself, Betrayed

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Greatest, Gift, Thyself

Beauty without expression is boring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty, Boring, Expression

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dreams, Character, Judge

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Waiting, Tension, Strings

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Another, Dream, Illusion

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Nothing, Sense

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 25, 1803

Died: April 27, 1882

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