1442 Quotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 1141. The trouble with being punctual is that no one is there to appreciate it.

- 1142. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

- 1143. The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing ...

- 1144. The true poem is the poet's mind.

- 1145. The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops—no, but ...

- 1146. The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

- 1147. The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of dis ...

- 1148. The very thought of the Diety,
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- 1149. The virtue in most request is conformity.

- 1150. The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must ca ...

- 1151. The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

- 1152. The walking of Man is falling forwards.

- 1153. The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.

- 1154. The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

- 1155. The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

- 1156. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

- 1157. The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband is unworthy of the name of wife.

- 1158. The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

- 1159. The world belongs to the energetic.

- 1160. The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

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