Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 19

• No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cheating

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• When there is no vision, people perish.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Vision, Visualization

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• We surround ourselves with the true image of ourselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Surround

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• The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiring, Education, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2745, Delphi Classics

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• The soul circumscribes all things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Oversoul, All Things

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.387, Library of America

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• A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Money, Men

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• Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Grows, Angry

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• The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophical, Men, He Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Eye, My Friends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Wish, Vices

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.203

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• There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Degrees, Fixture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.93, Graphic Arts Books

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• Nature hates calculators.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Hate, Calculators

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.99, Coyote Canyon Press

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• The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Consistency, Mind, Needs

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• I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Wish, Mindfulness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Sacred, Facts

  Essays Circles (p. 297)

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• Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1122, Library of America

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• 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

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• To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Wise, Believe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.14, Harvard University Press

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• The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.136, Penguin

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• It is rare to find a man who believes in his own thoughts or speaks that which he is created to say. As nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing, so nothing is more rare in any man than an act of his own...feel yourself, and be not daunted by things...The light by which we see this world comes out from the soul of the observer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Men, Light

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• It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Hurt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Determination, Opportunity, Desire

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• By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Creative, Delight, Warp

  Letters and Social Aims "Quotation and Originality" (1876)

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• Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Acceptance, Events, Connections

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.118, Penguin

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• Genius always finds itself a century too early.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intelligence, Genius, Talent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.81, University of Missouri Press

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