Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are wiser than we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
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 gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must be our own before we can be another's.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you are comes to you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
