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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poet United States 1803–1882

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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson