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Famous Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.”
“Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.”
“I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.”
“If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.”
“If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.”
“People only see what they are prepared to see.”
“Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.”
“Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.”
“Make yourself necessary to somebody.”
“Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.”
“The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.”
“People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.”
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
“Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.”
“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.”
“Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.”
“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”
“Genius always finds itself a century too early.”
“Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.”
“Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.”
“It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.”
“Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.”
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
“The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.”
“The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.”
“There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.”
“Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.”
“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”
“The ancestor of every action is a thought.”
“Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.”
“Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.”
“The highest revelation is that God is in every man.”
“We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.”
“Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.”
“Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.”
