Ralph Waldo Emerson

(149 votes)   The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(148 votes)   We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(148 votes)   Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(144 votes)   Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(143 votes)   In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(143 votes)   Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(140 votes)   The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(140 votes)   Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(138 votes)   As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(138 votes)   There is always safety in valor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(137 votes)   A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(136 votes)   A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

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(136 votes)   The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

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(135 votes)   Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

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(135 votes)   Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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