“Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.”
Source: Essays
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Famous Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.”
“At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.”
Source: Essays, Orations and Lectures
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”
“Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.”
Source: Nature and Other Essays
“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.”
Source: Nature and Other Essays
“The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.”
Source: The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871
Source: Nature: Addresses, and Lectures
“The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.”
Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson