Ralph Waldo Emerson | Essayist & Philosopher ✍️

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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

Men love to wonder; that is the seed of science.

The years teach much which the days never know.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

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

All mankind love a lover.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

We cannot overstate our debt to the past, but the moment has the supreme claim.