Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 9

• Men are what their mothers made them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Mothers Day, Mom

  The Conduct of Life "Fate" (1860)

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• We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Needs, Helping

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• We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cities, Rivers, Way

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851”, p.218, Harvard University Press

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• We acquire the strength we have overcome.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Strength, Encouraging

  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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• Postpone not your life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Procrastination

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• He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Optimistic, Optimism, Anxiety

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• Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Skills, Depends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.224, Library of America

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• Do not follow where the path may lead.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Graduation, Travel, Adventure

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• The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• Desire is possibility seeking expression.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Expression, Desire, Possibility

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• Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Needs, Faults

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.145, Penguin

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• The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Graduation, Education, Teaching

  "Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Sun, Planets

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• A man's library is a sort of harem.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Library, Enthusiasm

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.415, Harvard University Press

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• All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Keys, Criminal Mind, Riddle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.275, Penguin

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• To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Greatness, Heaven

  Ralph Waldo Emerson's Journals, December 20, 1822.

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• Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Relationship, Family, Trust

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.365, Library of America

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• Every man alone is sincere.
  At the entrance of a second person,
  hypocrisy begins.
  We parry and fend the approach
  of our fellow-man by compliments,
  by gossip, by amusements, by affairs.
  We cover up our thought from him
  under a hundred folds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Gossip, Hypocrisy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1342, Delphi Classics

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• If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Beauty, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.75, David R. Godine Publisher

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• No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Character, Angel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

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• The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Imagination, Quality, Flow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.170, Penguin

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• One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Adversity, Firsts, Tasting

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• A great man is always willing to be little.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Spiritual, Integrity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Compensation and Self-Reliance”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Mom, Mother

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