Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, God, Face

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learning, Heartily, Prayed

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Else, Everyone, Show

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Secret, Ugliness, Consists

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Themselves, Tendency

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Find, Shall, Seek

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why, Word, Suffice

As soon as there is life there is danger.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Soon, Danger

Power and speed be hands and feet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Power, Hands, Feet

Revolutions go not backward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is always safety in valor.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Person, Illusion, Meet

Our best thoughts come from others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best, Thoughts, Others

Children are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children, Foreigners

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Everything, Made

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Him, Give, Goes

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great, Shortest, Geniuses

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hate, Giving, Whole

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Path, Door, Beaten

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good, Men, Passion

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time, Nothing, Manners

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Individual, Mistake, Universal

Nature hates calculators.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great, Complains

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Knowing, Content

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 25, 1803

Died: April 27, 1882

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