Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882
1847 photo by Southworth & Hawes, from the George Eastman House Collection
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- Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Patience and fortitude conquer all things. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - People only see what they are prepared to see. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essay on Circles (1841) - Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Prudence is the virtue of the sense. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Science does not know its debt to imagination. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self-command is the main elegance. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self-trust is the essence of heroism. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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