Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man in debt is so far a slave.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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