Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 108

• When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

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  Government, Mind, Structure

  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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• A man cannot speak but he judges himself

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  Men, Judging, Judgement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.294, Library of America

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• It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist

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  Discovery, Unhappy, Too Late

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.240, Harvard University Press

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• Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

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  Creativity, Credit, Prosperity

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• A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

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  Animal, Hyenas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1092, Library of America

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• All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle

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  Turtles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.457, Harvard University Press

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• Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

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  Evil, Shadow, Literature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.487, Library of America

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• The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community

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  Brave Face, Justice, Judging

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.413

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• How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

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  Pain, Giving, Receiving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• The best part of health is fine disposition

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  Health, Disposition, Fine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.456

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• I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be understood by you.

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  Believe, Miracle, Arms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (1989). “The Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.80, University of Missouri Press

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• Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

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  Running, Heart, Cake

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.562

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• 'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

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  Funny, Humor, Special

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.135

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• Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter - if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?

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  Inspiration, Creativity, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.339, Рипол Классик

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• ...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!

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  Pain, May, Anticipation

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• Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.

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  Dream, Men, Goal

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• The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.

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  Flower, Garden, Wind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.275, The Floating Press

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• The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

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  Fall, Ego, Pests

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• The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

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  Wise, Nature, Simplicity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

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  Simple, Simplicity, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

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  Character, Men, Compromise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.367

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• The gentleman is a man of truth.

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  Truth, Men, Gentleman

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.343, Modern Library

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• A day is a miniature eternity.

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  Science, Mystery, Eternity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.142, Harvard University Press

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• If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent, or deal with any person whose whole manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still. Whose is so? Not mine; not thine; not his. But I think we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit? and we must not cease to tend to the correction of these flagrant wrongs, by laying one stone aright every day.

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  Heart, Thinking, Feet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1170, Delphi Classics

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• Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

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  Rivers, Environmental, Each Month

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Nature”, p.17

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