He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We wish to be self-sustained. We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, the worst. What is the right use? What is the end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satelite instead of a system.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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