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Famous Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.”
“The greatest man in history was the poorest.”
“I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.”
“A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.”
“A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.”
“There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.”
“A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.”
“The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.”
“Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.”
“Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.”
“Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.”
“Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.”
“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.”
“When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.”
“Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.”
“O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.”
“No man can have society upon his own terms.”
“Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.”