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“You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong” and other Quotations by American Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson is a famous US poet, philosopher and writer. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts in May 1803. Ralph Waldo Emerson died in 1882 in Massachusetts.

Emerson is remembered as one leader of the Transcendentalist movement.

Emerson was a talented writer and is still often quoted in speeches and in print. We have collected several of his most famous quotations for your reading pleasure.

And Now The Ralph Waldo Emerson Famous Quotes

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man….such a man is a true gentleman.

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.

If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.

He is great who confers the most benefits.

He who has a thousand friendsHas not a friend to spare,While he who has one enemyShall meet him everywhere.

Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a hundred years hence.

Money often costs too much.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

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