Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 10

• Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Pet, Sitting

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• We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Symbols

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.456, Library of America

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• Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Keys, Justice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.16, Graphic Arts Books

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• As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Destiny, Done, Fortune

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.117, Harvard University Press

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• Self trust is the essence of heroism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Running, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Adam Starchild (2002). “Character and Heroism”, p.63, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Pain, Attitude

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• When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Good Morning, Beautiful, Eye

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• Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Happiness, Gratitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.140, Harvard University Press

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Needs, Helping

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• Stand guard at the portal of your mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Portal

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• No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motherhood, Opportunity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.115, University of Missouri Press

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• Do not follow where the path may lead.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Graduation, Travel, Adventure

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• Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving, Silence, Personality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.426, Library of America

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• Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Pleasure, Sincerely

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2367, Delphi Classics

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• Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Society, Gains

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.59

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• Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Soul, Body

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3176, Delphi Classics

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• Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Reality, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.21, Coyote Canyon Press

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• One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Innovation, Life Is, Illusion

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• Ability without honor has no value.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honor, Ability, Values

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• Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Regret, Fall, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.37, Xist Publishing

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• All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Oratory, Speech, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.340

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• Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Soul, Pilots

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.90

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• The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

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  Life, Men, Yield

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.183, Graphic Arts Books

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• The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Medicine, Poison

  The Conduct of Life Ch. 7

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