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“The only gift is a portion of thyself.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Gifts

“To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book Experience

1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience

“No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Give all to love;
Obey thy heart….”

Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems

Source: Poems

“Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Self-Reliance

“Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Greatness <br class="br">1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=category&amp;sectionid=5&amp;id=74&amp;Itemid=149 (1876)

“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Works and Days - generally misquoted as "Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)

“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Self-Reliance

“The never-ending task of self improvement.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Nature and Selected Essays

“People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Circles
Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book Nature

Source: Nature

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Friendship
Variant: The only way to have a friend is to be one.

“Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson