Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Prosperity

• He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Adversity, Soul, Mind

• Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Law, Giving

• If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Years, Cost

• There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Home, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.241, University of Georgia Press

• Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Creativity, Credit, Prosperity

• No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Two, Three, Prosperity

• If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Simple, Prosperity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

• There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Pain, Grief

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “The Power of Emerson's Wisdom”

• A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiration, Prosperity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2650, Delphi Classics

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