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“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself”: Famous Quotes by Essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson is a famous US writer, thinker and poetessayist, poet and philosopher. Emerson was born in 1803. Emerson died in 1882.

Emerson is famous as one thought-leader of the American Transcendentalist movement.

Emerson was a well-regarded writer and orator and is very often quoted. We have arranged here a collection of his more famous quotations for your pleasure.

The Famous Quotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

I used to always think that I’d look back on us crying and laugh, but, I never thought I’d look back on us laughing and cry.

Give all to love obey thy heart.

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