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Famous Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
Source: The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely”
“We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them”
Source: Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays
Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
“Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.”
Source: A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year
“Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.”
“Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.”
“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838
Source: Early Lectures: 1838-1842
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
Source: A Year with Emerson: A Daybook
“A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.”
Source: The Journals
Source: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
