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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes & Sayings

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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