Ralph Waldo Emerson Short Quotes

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Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enclosed
In a tumultuous privacy of storm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
This world we live in is but thickened light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is his, who has money to go over it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The russet acorn, Fruit beloved by maid and boy.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology..

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the geologist the sea is the only firmament...

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The geometer shows us the true order in figures...

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
I, too late,
Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson