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“My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Self-Reliance

“the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Self-Reliance

“Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Variant: You become what you think about all day long.

“Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Self-Reliance

“The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Civilization

“Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Letters and Social Aims

“Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The ancestor of every action is a thought.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spiritual Laws
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841)

“He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book Nature

Uses of Great Men
1850s, Representative Men (1850)
Source: Nature

“I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Self-Reliance