Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 30

• Liberty is a slow fruit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Liberty, Fruit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.988, Modern Library

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• The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Law, Conservative

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• What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Art, Inspirational Life

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.526, Harvard University Press

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• What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Greatness, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.263, Library of America

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• Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Ambition, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.140, Penguin

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• Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heaven, Half, Might

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• There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Names, May, Morality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.13, Harvard University Press

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• Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Responsibility, Men, Sin

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.74, 谷月社

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• Activity is contagious.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Contagious, Activity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851”, p.12, Harvard University Press

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• I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Men, Horizon

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.37, Harvard University Press

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• There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Eggs, Way

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.380

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• A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike, his word is current in all countries; and all men, though his enemies, are made his friends and obey it as their own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Men, Voice

  "Emerson's Works".

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• The only prudence in life is concentration.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Focus And Concentration, Prudence

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• Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Men, Action

  1850 Representative Men,'Goethe'.

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• In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Character, Men

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• Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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• If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World, Ifs, Amused

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “Essays”, p.180, 1st World Publishing

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• Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Justice, Rewards

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.143, Harvard University Press

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• Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Progress, Today

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.274, Harvard University Press

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• Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Doors, Unhappy

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• People say law but they mean wealth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Law, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3911, Delphi Classics

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• Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wish, Ships, No Fear

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.217

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• Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither property nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Sex, Eye

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

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• Man's life is a progress, not a station.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Happiness, Men

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