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“The people are to be taken in very small doses”: Legendary Quotations by American Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson is a well-known US thinker, author and poet. Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Massachusetts on May 25, 1803. Emerson died April 1882 at the age of 78 in Concord, Massachusetts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson is famous as one thought-leader of the American Transcendentalist movement.

Emerson was a gifted writer and is often quoted. We have collected some of his more famous quotes for your enjoyment.

Some Ralph Waldo Emerson Famous Quotes:

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.

Nothing, at last, is sacred; but the integrity of your own mind.

We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all — friends?

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday.

One man’s justice is another’s injustice one man’s beauty another’s ugliness one man’s wisdom another’s folly.

To fill the hour-that is happiness.

A man is related to all nature.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.

They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Give all to love obey thy heart.

Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man….such a man is a true gentleman.

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