Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 67

• The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that,
  if you let it alone,
  it will let you alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Church, Merit, Ifs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1977). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1852-1855”, p.156, Harvard University Press

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• Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cities, People, Growth

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• People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Long, People, Suffering

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• Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Debt, Pay

  'Solution' (1847)

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• If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Simple, Prosperity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Lovers, Forget

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3195, Delphi Classics

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• We expect a great man to be a good reader.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Men, Lovers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.178, Рипол Классик

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• We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Ideas, Self Reliance

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

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• When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats andclothes you have worn out.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Shoes, Hiking, Numbers

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• Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Nature, Order

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1962). “The Portable Emerson”

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• Cunning is strength withheld.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strength, Cunning

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• We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Nature, Ambition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.20, Penguin

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• In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Art, Hands

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• Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Faces

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.2, Harvard University Press

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• Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Literature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.148, Harvard University Press

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• The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, World, Divinity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Rude, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.392, Рипол Классик

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• What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Healthy, Preacher

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.22, Modern Library

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• Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, May, Soil

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• Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Eye, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.313, Library of America

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• Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Truth, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.755, Harvard University Press

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• Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Snakes, Gliding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.122, Harvard University Press

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• 'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Complaining, Red

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• The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Moon, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.103, Harvard University Press

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• Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Depth, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2409, Delphi Classics

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