Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 148

• The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passion, Heart, Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.156

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• Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

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  Nature, Heart, Burden

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2003). “Nature and Other Writings”, p.41, Shambhala Publications

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• All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle

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  Turtles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.457, Harvard University Press

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• Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

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  Evil, Shadow, Literature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.487, Library of America

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• The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community

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  Brave Face, Justice, Judging

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.413

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• How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

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  Pain, Giving, Receiving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• The best part of health is fine disposition

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  Health, Disposition, Fine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.456

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• I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be understood by you.

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  Believe, Miracle, Arms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (1989). “The Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.80, University of Missouri Press

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• Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

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  Running, Heart, Cake

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.562

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• 'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

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  Funny, Humor, Special

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.135

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• Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter - if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?

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  Inspiration, Creativity, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.339, Рипол Классик

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• ...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!

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  Pain, May, Anticipation

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• Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.

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  Dream, Men, Goal

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• The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.

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  Flower, Garden, Wind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.275, The Floating Press

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• The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

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  Fall, Ego, Pests

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• The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.

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  Use, Delight, Parks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Orations and Lectures”

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• Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself especially how you choose to think about your situation.

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  Gratitude, Thinking, Situation

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• To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful.

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Heaven

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• The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.

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  Men, Life Is, Pleasure

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.335

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• Do your work, but do your thing.

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  Work, Purpose, Funny Basketball

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• Every action has an ancestor of a thought.

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  Action, Ancestor

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• I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.

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  Weed, Home, Sea

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.51, Delphi Classics

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• Do your thing, and I shall know you.

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  Knows

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.

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  Jobs, Men, Here And There

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• We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.

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