Ralph Waldo Emerson

(124 votes)   Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(124 votes)   It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(123 votes)   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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(122 votes)   A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

Ralph Emerson

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(122 votes)   No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(122 votes)   The triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war. Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated; the compression and tension of these stern conditions is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(121 votes)   There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(120 votes)   Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(119 votes)   Love and you shall be loved.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(119 votes)   Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(119 votes)   Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods loved him because men hated him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(118 votes)   A man's library is a sort of harem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(118 votes)   Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(118 votes)   Envy is ignorance

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(117 votes)   As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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