Ralph Waldo Emerson citations

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“Qu’est-ce qu’une herbe? Une plante dont les vertus n’ont pas encore été découvertes […].”

“Le premier secret du succès est la confiance en soi, la conviction que si vous êtes là, c’est que les pouvoirs de l’Univers vous y ont mis avec un motif, une tâche qui vous est strictement assignée de par votre constitution, et qu’aussi longtemps que vous y travaillerez, vous vous trouverez bien et réussirez.”

“Chaque minute que vous êtes en colère, vous perdez soixante secondes de bonheur.”

“Construisez donc votre propre monde.”

“Écrivez dans votre cœur que chaque jour est le meilleur jour de l'année.”

“A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.”

“Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.”

“Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold”

“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.”

“Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.”

“As we grow old… the beauty steals inward.”

“Books are for nothing but to inspire”

“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.”

“To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.”

“If eyes were made for seeing,
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.”

“People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.”

“I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.”

“Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares”

“Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.”

“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.”

“Patience and fortitude conquer all things.”

“Moderation in all things, especially moderation.”

“In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.”

“Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.”

“The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.”

“Love what is simple and beautiful.
These are the essentials.”

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.”

“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.”

“God will not have his work made manifest by cowards”

“Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.”

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.”

“Common sense is as rare as genius.”

“The only gift is a portion of thyself.”

“Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.”