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Ralph Waldo Emerson
b. 1803; d. 1882
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Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist
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# · Not So Good (23 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
# · Good (11 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
# · Not So Good (4 ratings) · submitted 1998
Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
# · Not So Good (17 ratings) · submitted 1997
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
# · Not So Good (12 ratings) · submitted 1997
All mankind loves a lover.
# · Not So Good (8 ratings) · submitted 1997
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
# · Very Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
# · Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hitch your wagon to a star.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
I hate quotations.
# · Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
No man can get through me but through my act.
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
# · Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
People only see what they are prepared to see.
# · Bad (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confessor of character.
# · Not So Good (7 ratings) · submitted 1997
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
# · Not So Good (3 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
# · Not So Good (9 ratings) · submitted 1997
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
# · Not So Good (5 ratings) · submitted 1997
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
# · Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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