Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 94

• An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self Reliance, Shadow

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Individual, Reckless

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.72, North Atlantic Books

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• Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is fire and horse and health and holiday. At least, I find that any success in my work has the effect on my spirits of all these.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Horse, Wine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.318, Courier Corporation

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• If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rain, Riding Your Bike, Motorcycle

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• The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, Ornaments

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• A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Chill, Cynicism, Cynic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.157, Harvard University Press

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• Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Hero, Uniforms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Military, Youth, Lows

  "Voluntaries" no. 3 (1867)

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• Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Fall, Color

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• The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew… it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Body, Reincarnation

  "In the Beauty of the Lilies: A Love Story That Opens Doors to Spiritual Values". Book by Gerald O. Doyle (p. 56), 2002.

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• The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the faces and houses around to shine. Nay, the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable.

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  Light, House, Shining

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.241, University of Georgia Press

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• Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partizans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Matter, Suits, Causes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.550, Library of America

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• The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Liberty, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.341, University of Georgia Press

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• All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Action, Forget, Spontaneity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.210, Penguin

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• Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Women, Elements, Kingdoms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “Power, Wealth, Illusions”, p.96

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• To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Blow, Men

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• Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Travel, Journey, Tourism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.278, Library of America

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• Always scorn appearances and you always may.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  May, Appearance, Scorn

  Ralph Emerson (2014). “Ralph Waldo Emerson on Self-Reliance: Advice, Wit, and Wisdom from the Father of Transcendentalism”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike oak-trees to the centre, round which all arrange themselves the best they can. But the old statesman knows that society is fluid; there are no such roots and centres; but any particle may suddenly become the centre of the movement, and compel the system to gyrate round it, as every man of strong will, like Pisistratus, or Cromwell, does for a time, and every man of truth, like Plato, or Paul, does forever.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Plato, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.161, Graphic Arts Books

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• Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perception, Birth, Elegance

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• My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Life Is, Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.120, Penguin

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• There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an edition of his works; yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons, as if God brought them written in his hand.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Plato, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1321, Delphi Classics

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• There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Men, Rooms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.974, Library of America

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• In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Given, All Things

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.20, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Joy, Greater

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, second series”, p.137, Harvard University Press

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