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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes


Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Every wall is a door.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

God enters by a private door into every individual.