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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I looked someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted thier answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I as looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I could answer. It took me a while and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself!»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
boomerang, boomerangs, self-contradictory
«When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Quarrels
| Keywords:
blameless, quarrel, quarreled, quarreling
«Great geniuses have the shortest biographies»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
biographies, geniuses, shortest
«Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
lengthened, lengthening, lengthens, The Organization
«Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.»