Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

A difference of taste in jokes, is a great strain on the affections.

That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past?

Doing well is a result of doing good.

Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.

Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

In the woods is perpetual youth. In the woods we return to faith and reason.

If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Life is our dictionary

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