Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 15

• What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Thinking, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.12, Penguin

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• In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Fear, Failure

  Essays "Prudence" (1841)

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• Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Single

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• By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perseverance, Persistence, Littles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Religion, Spirituality

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• Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Sour, Intellect

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.306, Рипол Классик

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• Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Expression, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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• Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Self, Prudent

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• How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Good Morning, Nature, Flower

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.299, University of Georgia Press

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• Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Song, Learning, Knowledge

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• Accept your genius and say what you think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.297, Harvard University Press

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• Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Witty, Fear, Humorous

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.185, Harvard University Press

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• Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Taken

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3128, Delphi Classics

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• When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Plato, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.151, Harvard University Press

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• Thou art to me a delicious torment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Art, Romance

  'Essays' (1841) 'Friendship'

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• The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent - for every effect a perfect cause - and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Strong, Business

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.368

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• I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Gambling, Risk

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• Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Eye, Expression

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• Some people are born very far from home.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, People, Born

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• For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

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• Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Business, Doing Good, Results

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• There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strength, Rooms, Force

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• The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Speech, Cures

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.221, Delphi Classics

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• Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Meaningful, Power, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.448, Рипол Классик

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• Stand guard at the portal of your mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Portal

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