Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 80

• Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid, Day's toil and it's guerdon, They are all vanishing, Fleeing to fables, Cannot be moored

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spring, Sleep, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.445, Harvard University Press

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• Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Long, Life Is, Moments

  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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• Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

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  Passion, Alive, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

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  Love, Math, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.79, Harvard University Press

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• It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  'Essays' (1841) 'Heroism'

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• The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Greatness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.1

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• In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.50, North Atlantic Books

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• There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

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  Doe, Disease, Cures

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2781, Delphi Classics

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• Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Writing, Lines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.413

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• A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

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  Men, Light, Self Reliance

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

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• Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you. For you is the phenomenon perfect. What we are, that only can we see. All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do. Adam called his house, heaven and earth; Caesar called his house, Rome; you perhaps call yours, a cobler's trade; a hundred acres of ploughed land; or a scholar's garret. Yet line for line and point for point, your dominion is as great as theirs, though without fine names. Build, therefore, your own world.

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  Rome, Land, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.61, Penguin

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• Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

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  Men, Luxury, Politics

  Essays, Second Series "New England Reformers" (1844)

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• Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

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  Heart, Achievement, Victory

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• It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

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  Money, Skills, Rothschild

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• Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

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  Funny, Men, Insanity

  Journals

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• But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

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  Shopping, Giving, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1482, Delphi Classics

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• He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

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  Creativity, Men, Innovation

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• The virtue of books is to be readable.

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  Book, Writing, Virtue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.339, Harvard University Press

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• Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

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  Friendship, House, Shelter

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1341, Delphi Classics

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• We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

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  Beauty, Mean, Simple

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.154, Harvard University Press

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• We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.

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  Forgiveness, Kindness, Deals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.341, Library of America

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• Music causes us to think eloquently.

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  Music, Thinking, Causes

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• Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Beer, Self Reliance

  Journal (1867)

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• A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

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  Success, Motivation, Men

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• Travel is a fools paradise.

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  Travel, Tourism, Paradise

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