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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
boundless, confidence, confidences, confidence man, genius, inspires, our own, powers, The Man
«Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.»
«The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Self-esteem,
Self-knowledge,
Self-respect
| Keywords:
cater, catered, catering, consider, difficulty, establishment, establishments, herd, herding, sacrificing
«Our best thoughts come from others.»
«Happy is the house that shelters a friend»
«Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
beautiful, elegant, graceful, handsome, handsomer, handsomest, imagination, not yet, pretty, Pretty Things, rich, speak, yet
«Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago but it is put to better use»
«Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
clothes, curiosities, curiosity, endurance, eye, few, good-humored, good humor, How to, humor, humored, humors, Know how, old, plain, plainer, plainest, plain clothes, Plain People, qualification, qualifications, shod, shoes, silence, speech, take, too much, vast, Vaster, vastest
«With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.»
«Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason»
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