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Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on 25th May 1803 AD. An American citizen, Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in United States. Ralph Waldo Emerson was 79 years old when he died on 27th April 1882 AD. In his life Ralph Waldo Emerson was famous not only for his work but also for quotations and sayings, some of which are quite popular and listed here.

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.	Tweet
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.	Tweet
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.	Tweet
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.	Tweet
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.	Tweet
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.	Tweet
He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.	Tweet
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.	Tweet
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.	Tweet
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.	Tweet
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.	Tweet
Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.	Tweet
A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.	Tweet
Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real. Perhaps they are.	Tweet
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.	Tweet
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.	Tweet
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.	Tweet
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.	Tweet
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.	Tweet
Earth laughs in flowers.	Tweet
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.	Tweet
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.	Tweet
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.	Tweet
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.	Tweet
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.	Tweet
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.	Tweet
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.	Tweet
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.	Tweet
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.	Tweet
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.	Tweet
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.	Tweet
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.	Tweet
To fill the hour, that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.	Tweet
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.	Tweet

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