Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 12

• there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Sun, Planets

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• Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sake, Add

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.21, University of Georgia Press

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• It is defeat which educates us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Defeat, Educate

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• Society is a hospital of incurables.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Society, Hospitals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.410, Modern Library

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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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• In the woods we return to reason and faith.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Garden, Tree

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.30, Penguin

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• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Art'.

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• My giant goes with me wherever I go.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giants

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

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• A man's library is a sort of harem.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Library, Enthusiasm

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.415, Harvard University Press

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• Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ambition, Pride, Envy

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• When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distrust, Believer, Unbelievers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.307, Courier Corporation

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• The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Imagination, Quality, Flow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.170, Penguin

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• Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Love Is, Effort

  "The Art Of Successful Living".

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• Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Getting Older, Age, Fascination

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• If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Beauty, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.75, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Selfish, Men, Suffering

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.181, Graphic Arts Books

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• In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thoughtful, Deep Life, Deep Thought

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Nature”, p.71

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• In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life Lesson, Order

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• The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Blow, Errors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.71, Penguin

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• The world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Believe, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.152, Courier Corporation

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• An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Clever

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• Men are what their mothers made them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Mothers Day, Mom

  The Conduct of Life "Fate" (1860)

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• Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Impossible, Paid, Ifs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.143, Courier Corporation

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• Love, and you shall be loved.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Life, Romantic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.35, 谷月社

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• Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, Biographies, Talent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.635, Library of America

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