Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 April 27, 1882) was a famous American essayist and one of America's most influential thinkers and writers. · Can we improve this biography or this incorrect? Post your own bio in the forums.
"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on age and aging
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"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on decisions
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"The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on dependence
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"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?"
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on desire
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"'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on diets and dieting
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"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?"
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Self-command is the main discipline."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on discipline
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"All diseases run into one. Old age."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on disease
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo on drugs
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"Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on duty
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"Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on economy and economics
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"I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"The secret in education lies in respecting the student."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on enthusiasm
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"Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on enthusiasm
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