Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882
1847 photo by Southworth & Hawes, from the George Eastman House Collection
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- If we live truly, we shall see truly. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your own good. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - In the woods is perpetual youth. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such who are in the institution wish to get out; and such as are out wish to get in? permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. permalink
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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