Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poe >>

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. >>

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall >>

Quotations about Conformity

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a l >>

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher >>

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind >>

One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo