Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Struggle

• Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Struggle, Wish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.112, U of Nebraska Press

• Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Struggle, Winning, Government

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.99, University of Georgia Press

• In spite of Virtue and the Muse,
  Nemesis will have her dues,
  And all our struggles and our toils
  Tighter wind the giant coils.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Struggle, Fate, Wind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.212, The Floating Press

• In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Struggle, People, Choices

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