Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONBe not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
-
-
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON -
Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON -
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON -
It is not the length of life, but the depth.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON -
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON -
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON -
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON -
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON -
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON -
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON -
Every artist was first an amateur.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON -
Beauty without expression is boring.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON -
Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON -
Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON -
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON






