Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 98

• I like people who like Plato.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Plato, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.390

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• We pass for what we are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.356, University of Georgia Press

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• Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Eye, Sky

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.447, Penguin

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• Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Christian, Children, Flower

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• Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Evil, Cold, Beats

  Address in Divinity College, americanliterature.com. July 15, 1838.

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• Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Accounts, Has Beens

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.316, Harvard University Press

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• When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, World, Dupes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1362, Delphi Classics

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• America means opportunity, freedom, power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Military, Mean, Opportunity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.285, University of Missouri Press

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• The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Foundation, Culture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2630, Delphi Classics

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• He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Would Be, Great Souls

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• When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Science, Power

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.165

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• We live ruins amid ruins.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Greatness, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1098, Delphi Classics

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• Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Powerful, Genius, Labor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.93, Penguin

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• Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Vanity, Profound, Veins

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, People, Fancy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.75, Coyote Canyon Press

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• The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sea, Population

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.433, Harvard University Press

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• The world is his who has money to go over it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, World, Over It

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.366

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• Every thought is public,
  Every nook is wide;
  Thy gossips spread each whisper,
  And the gods from side to side.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gossip, Sides, Spread

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.291

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• The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Victory, Instant

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.390

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• The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm, and in the miscellany of metropolitan life, and that these few are alone to be regarded,--the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love what is simple and beautiful; independence and cheerful relation, these are the essentials,--these, and the wish to serve,--to add somewhat to the well-being of men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Happiness, Beautiful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.427

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• Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven to earth, of matter to mind, of the part to the whole, is our guide. As there is a science of stars, called astronomy; and science of quantities, called mathematics; a science of qualities, called chemistry; so there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Knowledge, Heaven

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.534, Modern Library

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• We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

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  Believe, Men, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4249, Delphi Classics

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• Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Used, Symbols

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.74, Coyote Canyon Press

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• There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Influence, Christ

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4069, Delphi Classics

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