Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 24

• Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Use, Unions

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

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• Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.

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  Art, Media, Entertainment

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• Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.

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  Secret, Religion, Towers

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• Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

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  Greatness, Men, Long

  "Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• A man is what he thinks about all day long.

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  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.

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  Leadership, Kings, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.303

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• When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

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  Funny, Communication, Humor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.410

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• Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

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  Philosophy, Giving, Tree

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

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• Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is.

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  Religious, Men, Long

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.84, Open Road Media

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• Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

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  Music, Sweet, Healthy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2886, Delphi Classics

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• Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Photography, Thinking, Photographer

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• For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts; that all men value the few real hours of life; they love to be heard; they love to be caught up into the vision of principles. We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had, in the dreary years of routine and of sin, with souls that made our souls wiser; that spoke what we thought; that told us what we knew; that gave us leave to be what we only were.

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  Memories, Real, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.89, Library of America

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• Fear is a great instructor.

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  Fear, Instructors

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• For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

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  World, Whips, Nonconformity

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• When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

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  Real, Ignorance, Skills

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.55

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• He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

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  Sweet, Garden, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.154, Graphic Arts Books

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• Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)

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  Extras

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• Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

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  Art, Men, Conversation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.144, Harvard University Press

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• A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

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  Success, Hate, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2631, Delphi Classics

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• The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

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  Eye, Soul, Lazy Eyes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2329, Delphi Classics

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• When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

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  God, Heart, Fire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.65, Penguin

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• There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

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  Pain, Attitude, Night

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.104, Harvard University Press

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• The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

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  Wisdom, Time, Work

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.99, Penguin

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• A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

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  Party, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

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  Desire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.176, Harvard University Press

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