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Famous Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.”
“Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.”
“The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.”
“Life is a festival only to the wise.”
“A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.”
“Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.”
“Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.”
“Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.”
“Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.”
“We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.”
“Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.”
“Life too near paralyses art.”
“The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.”
“Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.”
“Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.”
“Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.”
“A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.”
“The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.”
“What we call results are beginnings.”
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”