Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 36

• We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Past, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.413

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• Art is the path of the creator to his work.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Work, Path

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.466, Library of America

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• No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Compassion, Matter, Bees

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

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• Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Feel Good, Mind, Avenues

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.64, Coyote Canyon Press

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• We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Children, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had 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 inly are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Light, Soul

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

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• There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

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  Beauty, Blessed, Mean

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.287, Harvard University Press

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• Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hunting, Land, Shopping

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.216, Library of America

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• You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Fire, Burning

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• When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Rose, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.42, Penguin

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• When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Hands, Voice

  Journal, 10 Dec. 1824

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• Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Journey, Destination

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• The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teaching, Government, Bully

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1913). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Answers, Problem

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.437

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• Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sin, Come Up

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.178, Penguin

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• Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished of his proportion; and the stricter theunion, the smaller and the more pitiful he is. But leave him alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul, he will go up and down doing the works of a true member, and, to the astonishment of all, the work will be done with concert, though no man spoke.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Soul, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1527, Delphi Classics

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• Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Might, Causes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.211, Penguin

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• It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Rely, Seems

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.122, Penguin

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• We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.163

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• [D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Providence, Universe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.259, Harvard University Press

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• How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Acquaintance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with annotations”

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• A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intelligent, Cheerful, Culture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.37

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• There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hours, Strive, Destruction

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Looks, World

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

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• A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Regret, Greatness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.16

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