Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Profession : Philosopher

Birth : May 25, 1803

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are wiser than we know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson