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“Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies”: Well-Known Quotations by American Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson is a well-known American thinker, author and poet. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts in May 1803. Ralph Waldo Emerson died in 1882 at the age of 78 in Concord, Massachusetts.
Emerson is remembered as one thought-leader of the Transcendentalist movement.
Emerson was a gifted writer and is still often quoted in speeches and in print. We have arranged here some of his most famous quotations for your reading pleasure.
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Famous Quotes
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say.
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
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.
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else and for everything you gain, you lose something.
Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see — not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions the surest poison is time.
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .
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.
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.
I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends.
In England every man you meet is some man’s son in America, he may be some man’s father.
Adopt the pace of nature.
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