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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

«Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.»

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: chief, Chiefs, could, inspire, know, someone, to be, U.S., us, want

«The world belongs to the energetic»

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: belongs, energetic, the world, world

«Difficulties exist to be surmounted»

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Trouble | Keywords: difficulties, exist, surmount, surmounted, surmounting, There exist, to be

«Character - a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means.»

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: Acts, character, directly, force, in character, in force, means, out of character, presence, reserved, reserves, reserving

«For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.»

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Anger | Keywords: angriest, angry, every, For every, happiness, lose, minute, seconded, seconds, sixty

«We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts»

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: not yet, unknown

«Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.»

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Solution | Keywords: scream, screamed, screams, sometimes, thesis

«Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.»