Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 90

• He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Old Things

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• Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Add, Genius, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.204, Harvard University Press

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• Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Believe, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.179, Graphic Arts Books

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• The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Children, Advantage

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.50, Harvard University Press

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• You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Power, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.196, Library of America

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• The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Money, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.377

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• To be great is to be misunderstood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Inspiration, Greatness

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Hypocrite, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.144, Library of America

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• It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Debt, World, Pay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “Essays”, p.109, 1st World Publishing

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• There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Fashion, Clothes

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

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• In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Library, Paper

  "Society and Solitude and Other Essays".

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• Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Fate, Intelligent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1859). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life”, p.23

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• When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Relationship, Money, Taken

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• A man is related to all nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Nature, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.24, 谷月社

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• A man is a god in ruins.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Art, Philosophy

  Nature ch. 8 (1836).

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• Beware of what you want-for you will get it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Want, What You Want

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• Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Marriage, Spiritual, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.322, Modern Library

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• But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Consistency, Trying, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.78, 谷月社

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• To be great, you must be misunderstood

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Misunderstood

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• In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Men, Islands

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• I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.22, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Adult males are what their moms designed them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mom, Adults, Males

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• Nothing can be preserved that is not good.

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  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838-1842”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway. This time, like all time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Eye, World

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• Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Two, Twists

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.94, Harvard University Press

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