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Short and Succinct Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

By Simran Khurana, About.com

Want to read some short and crisp quotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson? Here is a neat collection of short Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes.
  • All mankind love a lover.

  • Hitch your wagon to a star.

  • Shallow men believe in luck.

  • We boil at different degrees.

  • Every hero becomes a bore at last.

  • Men are better than their theology.

  • Thou art to me a delicious torment.

  • To be great is to be misunderstood.

  • Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

  • Self-trust is the first secret of success.

  • Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

  • Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist.

  • A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

  • The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

  • In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed.

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