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“You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong”: A Collection of Famous Quotes by American Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson is a well-known US thinker, essayist and poet. Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts in May 1803. Emerson died in 1882 in Concord, Massachusetts.

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

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

The Famous Quotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.

Nothing, at last, is sacred; but the integrity of your own mind.

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

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

Nature hates calculators.

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

In England every man you meet is some man’s son in America, he may be some man’s father.

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.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.

Adopt the pace of nature.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.

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