Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 96

• By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Delight, Facts, Invention

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• The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.

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  Miracle, Soul, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.371, Рипол Классик

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• A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.

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  Eye, Men, Servant

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.240

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• If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it.

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  Given, Ifs

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• No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

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  Pride, Men

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• Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

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  Running, Quality, Excess

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.237, Harvard University Press

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• Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

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  Nature, Buddhist, Philosopher

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.270

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• Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth.

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  Running, Clouds, Air

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.76, University of Missouri Press

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• Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast, with a daily newspaper; a well glazed parlor, with marbles, mirrors and centre-table; and the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year.

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  Party, Coffee, Mirrors

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• An action is the perfection and publication of thought.

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  Perfection, Action, Publication

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.38, Bantam Classics

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• It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.

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  Wise, Night, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1571, Delphi Classics

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• A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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  Friendship, Real Friends, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

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• There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

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  Excess, Edges

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.300, Library of America

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• Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

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  War, Book, Inspire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.10, Xist Publishing

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• I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. But the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill,--at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.

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  Inspiration, Men, Love Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.63, Harvard University Press

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• America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.

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  America, Slavery

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1844). “An Address Delivered in the Court-house in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844: On the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies”, p.33

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• The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

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  Poetry, Shepherds, Lambs

  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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• On bravely through the sunshine and the showers!
  Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.

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  Work, Sunshine, Showers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.400, The Floating Press

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• This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

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  Learning, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.96, Harvard University Press

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• The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.

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  Heat Of The Sun, Soul, Passing Away

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• Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession.

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  Friendship, Love Is, Games

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• To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

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  Self Reliance, Adults, Sun

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.

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  Past, Thinking, Dry Bones

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature”, p.2, Editora Dracaena

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• So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

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  Time, Preparation, Routine

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• All science is transcendental or else passes away.

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  Passing Away, Transcendental

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.211, Harvard University Press

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