Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 8

• What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, World, Tasks

  Essays "Intellect" (1841)

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• When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distrust, Believer, Unbelievers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.307, Courier Corporation

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• Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Love Is, Effort

  "The Art Of Successful Living".

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• For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Life, I Miss You

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.72, Bantam Classics

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• A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Thinking

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• Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Impossible, Paid, Ifs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.143, Courier Corporation

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• We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Goal, Challenges

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hurt, Integrity, Evil

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouragement, Good Life, Learning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2366, Delphi Classics

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• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Art'.

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• Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Eternity, Young

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.388, Library of America

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• As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Dream, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bliss Perry (1926). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.189, Courier Corporation

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• Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Regret, Fall, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.37, Xist Publishing

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• In good writing, words become one with things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Writing Words, Good Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1992). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.376, University of Missouri Press

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• In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Struggle, People, Choices

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• Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Getting Older, Age, Fascination

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• He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Enemy

  "The Conduct of Life". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Considerations By the Way", 1860.

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• In the woods we return to reason and faith.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Garden, Tree

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.30, Penguin

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• Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Powerful, Enthusiasm For Life, Might

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• Whatever limits us we call fate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Fate, Limits

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Wisdom, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Pet, Sitting

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• Humility is the secret of the wise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Humility, Secret

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• You never know how you look through other people's eyes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, People, Looks

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• Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiring, Karma, Peace

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

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