Get the Quote of the Day from Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be great is to be misunderstood.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
A great man is always willing to be little.
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
Earth laughs in flowers.
Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
What you are comes to you.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air's salubrity!
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