Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 25

• Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Passion, Games

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• Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.

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  Gymnastics, Mind, Walking

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• You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself

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  Trying, Helping, Social Work

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• Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.

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  Fall, Adversity, Victory

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.117, Harvard University Press

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• How much of human life is lost in waiting.

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  Life, Waiting, Losing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.364, Library of America

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• We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.

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  Love, Care, Littles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

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  Party, Loss, Ungrateful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.21

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• There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

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  Hypocrisy, Politics, Satisfaction

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.123

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• The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

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  Love, Marriage, Acceptance

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• Convert life into truth.

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  Life, Truth, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.70, Penguin

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• Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or sown with stars, wherever are forms with transparent boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger, and awe, and love, there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee, and though thou shouldest walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble.

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  Beauty, Stars, Rain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2003). “Nature and Other Writings”, p.177, Shambhala Publications

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• Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.

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  Integrity, Real, Men

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• There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

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  Wisdom, Men, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.209, Harvard University Press

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• Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

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  Honesty, Work, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.565, Рипол Классик

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• Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

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  Courage, Recovery, Power

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.179, Penguin

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• Concentration is the secret of srength.

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  Focus, Secret, Concentration

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• A man of no conversation should smoke.

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  Men, Smoking, Should

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.20, Harvard University Press

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• The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

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  Book, Fate, Destiny

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.13

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• The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.

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  Race, Perfect, Civility

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1253, Delphi Classics

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• A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.

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  Love, Educational, Philosophy

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• When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Nature, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Greatness, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.73

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• Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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  Book, Reading, Books And Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

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  Criticism, Pieces, Trade

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.73, University of Georgia Press

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• Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

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  Religion, Indifference, Destroyed

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