Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Laughter

• This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Smile, Confidence, Patience

• Earth laughs in flowers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Happiness, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

• As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Laughter, Wine, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.253, Penguin

• To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Laughter, Laugh Often, Enthusiasm

• The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Laughter, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.127

• I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Success, Laughter

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1068, Library of America

• A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Laughter, Laughing, Faults

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.115, Harvard University Press

• The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Laughter, Men, Population

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.328

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