Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 61

• Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Humility, Practice

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• Under every deep a lower deep opens.

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  Very Deep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.403, Library of America

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• Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.

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  Heart, Numbers, Discipline

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• A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us, and which we can love.

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  Cheer, Heart, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.51, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.

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  Garden, Encounters, Soil

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• We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it; the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!

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  Home, School, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.451, Modern Library

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• I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.'

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  Children, Church, Devil

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.43, 谷月社

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• Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.

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  Men, Inquiry, Solutions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.277

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• A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

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  Motivational, Baby, Children

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• Self trust is the essence of heroism.

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  Confidence, Running, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Adam Starchild (2002). “Character and Heroism”, p.63, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

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  Unique, Medicine, Battle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.24

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• A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

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  Courage, Greatness, Practice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.74, Harvard University Press

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• A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

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  Peace, Heart, Gay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.26, Graphic Arts Books

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• Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

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  Selfish, Sensual, Failing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1958). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

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• There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

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  Dream, Snow, Storm

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2388, Delphi Classics

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• Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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  Friendship, Soul, Immortality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1339, Delphi Classics

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• Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

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  Faith, Vices, Moments

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.385, Library of America

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• The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

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  Life, Happiness, Success

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1966). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1824-1838”, p.197, Harvard University Press

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• Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

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  Native American, Facts, Natural

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1491, Delphi Classics

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• Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

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  Leadership, Education, Time

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.61, 谷月社

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• It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

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  Christian, Heart, Office

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.61, Harvard University Press

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• There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

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  God, Sitting, Anarchy

  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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• We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

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  America, Fickle, Disease

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.115, Library of America

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• Revolutions go not backward.

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  Revolution

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Conduct of Life, Nature, and Other Essays”

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• Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

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  Giving, House, Spirit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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