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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. His essays, including "Self-Reliance" and "Nature," champion individuality, freedom, and the inherent goodness of people and nature. He remains one of America's most influential thinkers.

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“Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

God

“Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust

“Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature

“Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time

“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great

“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.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men

“A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money

“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health

“A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dreams

“Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge

“We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time

“I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good

“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great

“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage

“The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dreams

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace