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Ralph Waldo Emerson
May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
Nationality: American
Category: Poet
Subcategory: American Poet

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

   

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

   

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

   

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

   

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

   

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

   

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

   

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

   

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

   

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

   

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

   

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

   

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

   

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

   

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

   

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

   

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

   

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

   

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

   

Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.

   

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