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title: "121 May Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson"
description: "121 May quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Plus more from Ralph Waldo Emerson and more May sayings from other authors."
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> [Do not follow where the path may lead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/do-not-follow-where-the-path-may-lead/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-judge-may-be-a-farmer-but-he-is-not-to-geld-his-own-pigs/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-friend-may-well-be-reckoned-the-masterpiece-of-nature/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/let-us-be-silent-that-we-may-hear-the-whispers-of-the-gods/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/let-us-be-silent-so-we-may-hear-the-whisper-of-the-gods/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/nature-is-what-you-may-do-there-is-much-you-may-not-do/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Always scorn appearances and you always may.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/always-scorn-appearances-and-you-always-may/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/talent-may-frolic-and-juggle-genius-realizes-and-adds/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/consideration-is-the-soil-in-which-wisdom-may-be-expected-to-grow-and/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-in-the-wrong-may-more-easily-be-convinced-than-one-half-right/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-clergyman-who-lives-in-the-city-may-have-piety-but-he-must-have/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-sower-may-mistake-and-sow-his-peas-crookedly-the-peas-make-no/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-england-every-man-you-meet-is-some-man-s-son-in-america-he-may-be/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-world-is-a-divine-dream-from-which-we-may-presently-awake-to-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [I think it is the best of humanity that goes out to walk. In happy hours, I think all affairs may be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-think-it-is-the-best-of-humanity-that-goes-out-to-walk-in-happy/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/but-we-need-not-fear-that-we-can-lose-any-thing-by-the-progress-of/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-is-but-a-little-thing-in-the-midst-of-the-objects-of-nature-yet/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/truly-speaking-it-is-not-instruction-but-provocation-that-i-can/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/fear-when-your-friends-say-to-you-what-you-have-done-well-and-say-it/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-just-thinker-will-allow-full-swing-to-his-scepticism-i-dip-my-pen/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/nature-is-thoroughly-mediate-it-is-made-to-serve-it-receives-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/when-god-lets-loose-a-great-thinker-on-this-planet-then-all-things/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-intellectual-life-may-be-kept-clean-and-healthful-if-man-will/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/as-to-methods-there-may-be-a-million-and-then-some-but-principles-are/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-may-like-well-to-know-what-is-plato-s-and-what-is-montesquieu-s-or/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-dealing-with-the-state-we-ought-to-remember-that-its-institutions/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/nature-is-a-language-and-every-new-fact-one-learns-is-a-new-word-but/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-poet-needs-a-ground-in-popular-tradition-on-which-he-may-work-and/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-the-moment-when-you-make-the-least-petition-to-god-though-it-be/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-friend-is-a-person-with-whom-i-may-be-sincere-before-him-i-may-2/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/to-this-military-attitude-of-the-soul-we-give-the-name-of-heroism-it/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/man-is-a-stream-whose-source-is-hidden-our-being-is-descending-into-2/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/society-is-an-illusion-to-the-young-citizen-it-lies-before-him-in/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [We may be partial, but Fate is not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-may-be-partial-but-fate-is-not/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [What potent blood hath modest May.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/what-potent-blood-hath-modest-may/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-friend-may-be-nature-s-most-magnificent-creation/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The eye of prudence may never shut.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-eye-of-prudence-may-never-shut/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/god-may-forgive-sins-he-said-but-awkwardness-has-no-forgiveness-in/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-friend-is-a-person-with-whom-i-may-be-sincere-before-him-i-may/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-cannot-let-our-angels-go-we-do-not-see-that-they-only-go-out-that/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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## Other authors on May

## More by Ralph Waldo Emerson

> [The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-history-of-mankind-interests-us-only-as-it-exhibits-a-steady-gain/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-we-will-not-interfere-with-our-thought-but-will-act-entirely-or/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-there-is-any-period-one-would-desire-to-be-born-in-is-it-not-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-cannot-speak-but-he-judges-himself-with-his-will-or-against-his/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/consideration-is-the-soil-in-which-wisdom-may-be-expected-to-grow-and/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-then-creative-reading-as-well-as-creative-writing-when-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [The order of things consents to virtue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-order-of-things-consents-to-virtue/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [Life only avails, not the having lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/life-only-avails-not-the-having-lived/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/another-success-is-the-post-office-with-its-educating-energy/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-child-reminds-us-that-playtime-is-an-essential-part-of-our-daily/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/no-man-can-be-criticised-but-by-a-greater-than-he-do-not-then-read/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/coal-lay-in-ledges-under-the-ground-since-the-flood-until-a-laborer/)

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> [I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-am-therefore-i-had-nothing-better-to-do-than-to-think/)

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> [In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-a-library-we-are-surrounded-by-many-hundreds-of-dear-friends-but/)

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> [The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-compensations-of-calamity-are-made-apparent-to-the-understanding/)

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