Ralph Waldo Emerson - Top 10 Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

American essayist
(1803-1882)
#1
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
#2
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
#3
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
#4
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
#5
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
#6
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
#7
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
#8
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
#9
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
#10
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

About:
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. 
Born: 25 May 1803, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Died: 27 April 1882, Concord, Massachusetts, United States
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson


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