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Famous Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
“Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.”
“Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.”
“The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.”
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.”
“I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.”
“The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.”
“God will not have his work made manifest by cowards”
“It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.”
“Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.”
“You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.”
“No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.”
“Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.”
“Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.”
“We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.”
“Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.”
“All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.”