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When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. Peace
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Nature
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. Nature
By Ralph Waldo Emerson