Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 6

• Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Failure

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• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  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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• Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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• The most dangerous thing is illusion.

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  Illusion, Danger, Dangerous

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• Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

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  Soul, World, Judgment

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• It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

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  Character, Past, Judging

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• Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

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  Motivational, Pain, Attitude

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• Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

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• The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

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  Inspirational, Change, Recovery

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• The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.

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  Next, Good Things, Best Things

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• The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

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  Use, Comes And Goes, Ifs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.168, Рипол Классик

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• Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

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  Nature, Spirit, Made

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.30, Harvard University Press

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• We must be our own before we can be another's.

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  Friendship, Soulmate, Love Yourself

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.351, Library of America

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• Thought is the seed of action.

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  Inspirational, Health, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.18, Harvard University Press

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• A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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  Children, Essentials, Routine

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• We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

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  Wise, Silence, Soul

  "Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity".

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• Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.

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  Powerful, Blow, Light

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• The education of the will is the object of our existence.

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  Education, School, Existence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2508, Delphi Classics

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• Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.

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  Expression, Mind Blowing, Infinite

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• There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

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  Education, Suicide, Hope

  "Essays: First Series, Self-Reliance". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

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• On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.

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  Art, Real, Writing

  Essays, Second Series "Politics" (1844)

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• If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

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  Eye, Intelligent, Men

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• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Essays "Circles" (1841)

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• Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

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  Mirrors, Perception, Mind

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