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Every man passes his life in the search after friendship. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Insist on your life, never imitate ... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Me too thy nobleness has taught
To master my despair;
The fountains of my hidden life
Are through thy friendship fair. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

As soon as there is life there is danger. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life loiters at the book's first page,
Ah! could we turn the leaf. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The life of labor does not make men, but drudges. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Facts may suggest the advantage which the country-life possesses for — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live, let live, and help live — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . wherever life is dear he is a demigod. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only prudence in life is concentration. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great-eyed Plato proportioned the lights and shades after the genius of our life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is too short to waste ... 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark! — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our chief want in life, is,
someone who shall make us do what we can.
This is the service of a friend.
With him we are easily great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

a man only knows what he's experienced — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no days in life that are so memorable as those that vibrate to some stroke of the imagination. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We find in life exactly what we put into it — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a festival only to the wise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is an experiment. The more experiments the better — Ralph Waldo Emerson

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ennui shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My life is not an apology, but a life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not length of life, but depth of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs;
The world uncertain comes and goes,
The lover rooted stays. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would study, I would know, I would admire forever. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that. — Brandi L. Bates

Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher — Marci Shimoff

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

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Postpone not your life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life too near paralyses art. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no person can help another without helping themselves — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are books ... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who loses a day loses life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us be poised, wise and our own today. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

For the secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a series of surprises. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever you do you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon, there will always be someone to tell you that you are wrong. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imitation is suicide. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,
life passed through the fire of thought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,
what ample borrowers of eternity they are! — Ralph Waldo Emerson