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“Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity”: A Collection of Legendary Quotations by American Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson is a well-known American thinker, author and poet. Emerson was born in 1803. He died April 27, 1882 at the age of 78 in Massachusetts.
Emerson is well-known as one leader of the Transcendentalist movement.
Emerson was a gifted writer and orator and is still often quoted. We have arranged here a collection of his most famous quotations for your enjoyment.
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations:
The world belongs to the energetic.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
God enters by a private door into every individual.
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
Nature hates calculators.
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
Men are what their mothers made them.
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.
There are always those who think they know what is your responsibility better than you do.
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a God playing the fool.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
In England every man you meet is some man’s son in America, he may be some man’s father.
A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
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