Sunday, 25 May 2014

May 25th: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Born this date in 1803: Ralph Waldo Emerson, US writer and philosopher. Today, 10 Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes:


  1. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
  2. What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
  3. The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
  4. What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
  5. Children are all foreigners.
  6. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
  7. Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
  8. Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
  9. Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
  10. It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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