Ralph Waldo Emerson
American poet and philosopher
Lived from: 1803 - 1882
Category: Philosophers | Poets (Contemporary) Country: 
United States
Born: 25 may 1803 Died: 27 april 1882
Quotes 501 till 520 of 593.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To fill the hour - that is happiness.
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To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
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To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
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Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.
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Today is a king in disguise.
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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
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Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
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Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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