The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every burned book enlightens the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature hates calculators.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power and speed be hands and feet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reality is a sliding door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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