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"A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic": Famous Quotes by American Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson is a famous American writer, thinker and poetauthor, poet and thinker. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 25, 1803. Ralph Waldo Emerson died April 27, 1882 in Massachusetts.

Emerson is well-known as one leader of the American Transcendentalist movement.

Emerson was a well-regarded writer and orator and is often quoted in speeches and in print. We have collected a collection of his most famous quotations for your pleasure.

The Famous Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes ...

Children are all foreigners.

Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

The first wealth is health.

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

All life is an experiment.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could some blunders and absurdities have crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a hundred years hence.

Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.

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

The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

Be and not seem.

What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

Life is a progress, and not a station.

Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.

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