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"Give all to love obey thy heart": Legendary Quotations by Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson is a famous US writer, thinker and poetwriter, poet and philosopher. Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts in May 1803. Ralph Waldo Emerson died in 1882.

Emerson is famous as one leader of the American Transcendentalist movement.

Emerson was a well-regarded writer and is very often quoted. We have arranged here a collection of his more famous quotations for your reading pleasure.

The Famous Quotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson ...

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

The reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air ...

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

One man's justice is another's injustice one man's beauty another's ugliness one man's wisdom another's folly.

A man is related to all nature.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

Character is what can do without success.

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions the surest poison is time.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .

We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves.

I like to have a man's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.

Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Presidential Proclamation -- Establishment of the Fort Monroe National Monument (whitehouse.gov)

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ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FORT MONROE NATIONAL MONUMENT

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

Known first as "The Gibraltar of the Chesapeake" and later as "Freedom's
Fortress," Fort Monroe on Old Point Comfort in Virginia has a storied history
in the defense of our Nation and the struggle for freedom.

Fort Monroe, designed by Simon Bernard and built of stone and brick between
1819 and 1834 in part by enslaved labor, is the largest of the Third System of
fortifications in the United States. It has been a bastion of defense of the
Chesapeake Bay, a stronghold of the Union Army surrounded by the Confederacy,
a place of freedom for the enslaved, and the imprisonment site of Chief
Blackhawk and the President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis. It served as
the U.S. Army's Coastal Defense Artillery School during the 19th and 20th
centuries, and most recently, as headquarters of the U.S. Army's Training and
Doctrine Command.

Old Point Comfort in present day Hampton, Virginia, was originally named
"Pointe Comfort" by Captain John Smith in 1607 when the first English
colonists came to America. It was here that the settlers of ...

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