Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 20

• When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Names, Feet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . .

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  Friendship, Thanks, I Am Thankful

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• Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Mind, Made

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.208, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Karma, Encouragement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.151, Harvard University Press

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• Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune, a result which he is sure to disappoint. None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice, but only in his high unprecedented way.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Children, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.505, Library of America

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• For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wit, Grain, Folly

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.287, Library of America

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• Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

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  House, Heaven, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.48, Library of America

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• Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouraging, Nature, Power

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1003, Library of America

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• The hero is he who is immovably centered.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero

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• Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

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  Life, Happiness, Dream

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.473, Library of America

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• These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Voice, Solitude, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Powerful, Spring, Passion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1966). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1824-1838”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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• I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Kings, Strikes

  "Felix Frankfurter Reminisces". Book by Harlan B. Phillips, p. 59, 1960.

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• The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

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  Teacher, Influence, Virtue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.471, Harvard University Press

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• We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

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  Children, Heart, Grandparent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.276, Penguin

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• As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world

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  Horse, Animal, Intuition

  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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• Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

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  Money, Mean, Conceited

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2148, Delphi Classics

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• No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Law, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

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  Love, Life, Courage

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• He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

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  Nature, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.4

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• Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

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  Truth, Choices, Mind

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• Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

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  Communication, Say Anything, Use

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.435, Рипол Классик

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• Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

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  Thinking, Today, Tomorrow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1279, Delphi Classics

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• Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Lazy, Laziness

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• There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

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  Differences, Quality, Pleasure

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1352, Delphi Classics

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