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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

«All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.»
«A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.»
«Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Passion | Keywords: regulator
«Concentration is the secret of strength»
«Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.»
«He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others»
«The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder»
«Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, -- an open and noble temper.»
«Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.»
«Is it so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.»