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 Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Ability and Achievement Quotes  The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Ability and Achievement Quotes The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Ability and Achievement Quotes The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Ability and Achievement Quotes Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Action Quotes It is time to be old, To take in sail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Aging and Old Age Quotes A good indignation brings out all one's powers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Anger Quotes The flowering of geometry. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Architects and Architecture Quotes When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Arguments and Quarrels Quotes Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Art and the Artist Quotes Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Art and the Artist Quotes Beauty without expression tires. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Beauty Quotes Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Beauty Quotes We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its ends. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Beauty Quotes Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestions, the raw material of possible poems and histories. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Books and Reading Quotes Tis the good reader that makes the good book. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Books and Reading Quotes The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Change and Transience Quotes Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Character and Personality Quotes Character is that which can do without success. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Character and Personality Quotes Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | The City and the Country Quotes The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Civilization Quotes An institution is the lengthening shadow of one man. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Clubs and Institutions Quotes A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Consistency Quotes A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Courage and Bravery Quotes The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Creation and Creativity Quotes A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Cynicism Quotes The question is whether suicide is the way out, or the way in. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Death and Dying Quotes Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Deception Quotes I pay the School Master, but 'tis the school boys that educate my son. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Education Quotes The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Education Quotes I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | England and the U.K. Quotes Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Experience Quotes I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility, which religion is powerless to bestow. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Fashion Quotes Whatever limits us we call Fate. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Fate and Destiny Quotes It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friends and Friendship Quotes A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friends and Friendship Quotes To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Genius Quotes In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Genius Quotes Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Goals and Ambition Quotes God enters by a private door into every individual. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | God Quotes In nature, nothing can be given, all things are sold. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Goodness and Giving Quotes The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Goodness and Giving Quotes I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Goodness and Giving Quotes The only gift is a portion of thyself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Goodness and Giving Quotes Take egotism out, and you would castrate the benefactor. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Goodness and Giving Quotes A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Greatness Quotes Calmness is always Godlike. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Greatness Quotes A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Heredity Quotes Every hero becomes a bore at last. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Heroes and Heroism Quotes A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Heroes and Heroism Quotes All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | History and Historians Quotes A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair the rest of his life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | The Home Quotes Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Homo Sapiens Quotes The cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Homo Sapiens Quotes We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Homo Sapiens Quotes Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Homo Sapiens Quotes The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Honour Quotes Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, 100 things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom! - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Human Relations Quotes When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Human Relations Quotes Make yourself necessary to somebody. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Human Relations Quotes Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Hypocrisy Quotes If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it, at any rate, brag. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Ignorance Quotes The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Imagination Quotes Every man is a borrower and a mimic; life is theatrical and literature a quotation. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Imitation Quotes If you shoot at a king you must kill him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Leaders and Leadership Quotes In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Life Quotes Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Life Quotes The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Life Quotes I can find my biography in every fable that I read. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Literature Quotes It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Literature Quotes A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Medicine and Sickness Quotes Men are what their mothers made them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Men Quotes Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Minorities Quotes The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nature Quotes Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nature Quotes My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Observation Quotes The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there's a great difference in the beholders. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Observation Quotes The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Observation Quotes People only see what they are prepared to see. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Observation Quotes Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Ownership and Possession Quotes The peace of the man who has foresworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Peace Quotes The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Personal Appearance Quotes Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Poets and Poetry Quotes Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Politeness and Manners Quotes There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Politeness and Manners Quotes There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for then we get rid of cant and hypocrisy. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Politics Quotes A good indignation brings out all one's powers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Power Quotes The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Power Quotes Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Praise and Flattery Quotes Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Revolution and Reform Quotes The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Religion Quotes There is a crack in everything God has made. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Religion Quotes No sensible person ever made an apology. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Repentance and Apology Quotes Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom! - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Sanity and Insanity Quotes Sanity is very rare; every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Sanity and Insanity Quotes Self-command is the main elegance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Weariness Quotes Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Society and Social Quotes We never touch but at points. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Solitude Quotes Sorrow makes us all children again. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Sorrow Quotes There are some men above grief and some men below it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Sorrow Quotes All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Speakers and Speeches Quotes Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Speakers and Speeches Quotes What is success? To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; That is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Success Quotes No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits, otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and ridiculous. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Travel and Travellers Quotes Make yourself necessary to somebody. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Trust Quotes God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Truth Quotes Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Vice Quotes The first wealth is health. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Wealth Quotes A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Wisdom Quotes A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Women Quotes It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Work Quotes We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Writers and Writing Quotes It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Writers and Writing Quotes There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse as his portion. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Education Quotes O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Unhappiness Quotes Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Peace of Mind Quotes Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Happiness Quotes Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Happiness Quotes Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Happiness Quotes To fill the hour, and leave no crevice ... that is happiness. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Happiness Quotes The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Happiness Quotes A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Happiness Quotes The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Happiness Quotes No man can have society upon his own terms. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Acceptance Quotes Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Acceptance Quotes Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Acceptance Quotes When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Forgiveness Quotes For everything you have missed, you have gained something else. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Forgiveness Quotes Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Forgiveness Quotes There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich, who want something more; that of the sick, who want something different; and that of the traveler, who says, "Anywhere but here." - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Other Side Quotes Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Other Side Quotes Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Helping Other People Quotes I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Helping Other People Quotes The only gift is a portion of thyself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Helping Other People Quotes Make yourself necessary to somebody. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Helping Other People Quotes We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all-friends. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship Quotes The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship Quotes No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it, he must serve it too. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship Quotes The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship Quotes The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship Quotes Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship Quotes Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship Quotes A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship Quotes It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship Quotes A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship Quotes Every man passes his life in the search after friendship. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship Quotes How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship Quotes A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Friendship Quotes God enters by a private door into every individual. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | God Quotes To Be is to live with God. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | God Quotes All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Faith and Belief Quotes A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Faith and Belief Quotes The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Faith and Unity Quotes The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Prayer Quotes Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Prayer Quotes Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Prayer Quotes It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Self-Knowledge Quotes Accept the place the divine providence has found for you. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Self-Acceptance Quotes Self-command is the main elegance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Self-Control Quotes Self-trust is the first secret of success. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Self-Confidence Quotes Discontent is want of self-discipline; it is infirmity of will. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Self-Reliance Quotes Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Self-Reliance Quotes To be simple is to be great. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Simplicity Quotes It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Simplicity Quotes Who loses a day loses life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | One Day Quotes Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | One Day Quotes The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | One Day Quotes He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | One Day Quotes Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | One Day Quotes To fill the hour, that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | One Day Quotes He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | One Day Quotes A day is a miniature eternity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | One Day Quotes The surest poison is time. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | One Day Quotes This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | The Past Quotes Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? - Ralph Waldo Emerson | The Past Quotes The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | The Present Quotes This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | The Present Quotes With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | The Present Quotes We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly in to the future; but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | The Present Quotes Live wastes itself while we are preparing to live. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | The Present Quotes To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | This Moment Quotes God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Mornings Quotes If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | The Future Quotes Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Boring Days Quotes We look wishfully to emergencies, to eventful, revolutionary times ... and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Boring Days Quotes They sicken of the calm that know the storm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Boring Days Quotes We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Difficult Days Quotes Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Difficult Days Quotes Patience and fortitude conquer all things. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Difficult Days Quotes People only see what they are prepared to see. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Positive Quotes A man is what he thinks about all day long. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Positive Quotes The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts, and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Positive Quotes Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Positive Quotes As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Positive Quotes There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Positive Quotes A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like unto him wherever he goes. What you are comes to you. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Positive Quotes Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Positive Quotes Skill to do comes of doing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Positive Quotes Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Enthusiasm Quotes The world belongs to the energetic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Enthusiasm Quotes Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Enthusiasm Quotes Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Enthusiasm Quotes A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Hope Quotes When there is no vision, people perish. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Visualization Quotes We change, whether we like it or not. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | Change Quotes I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso tha |