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"Self-trust is the essence of heroism": A Small Collection of Famous Quotations by American Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson is a famous US thinker, essayist and poet. Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts in May 1803. He died April 27, 1882 at the age of 78.

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

Emerson was a gifted writer and is still often quoted in speeches and in print. We have arranged here a collection of his most famous quotations for your reading pleasure.

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations ...

The reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

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.

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.

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

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a God playing the fool.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

When it is darkest, men see the stars.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

Spiritual force is stronger than material force thoughts rule the world.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

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.

In the woods is perpetual youth.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

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.

Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.

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