Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 125

• The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Time, Truth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.174

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• When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the show fiber has passed into your body.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Shoes, Body

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• Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Law, Apathy

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• Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals; - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Goal, Shining

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.330, Delphi Classics

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• Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.

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  Book, Reading, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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• The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Loss, Men, Long

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2125, Delphi Classics

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• The highest virtue is always against the law.

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  Law, Virtue, Highest

  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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• I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Learning, Sacrifice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.69, Penguin

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• To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful.

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Heaven

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• The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Life Is, Pleasure

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.335

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• Do your work, but do your thing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Purpose, Funny Basketball

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• Every action has an ancestor of a thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Action, Ancestor

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• I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, Home, Sea

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.51, Delphi Classics

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• Do your thing, and I shall know you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knows

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jobs, Men, Here And There

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• We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.

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• For beauty is God's handwriting...A nd, thank God for it as a cup of His blessing.

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  Blessing, Christian Inspirational, Thank God

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• When the night is darkest, the stars come out.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Night

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• Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Way, Manners, Hardened

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.380

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• A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Wind, Overcoming

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• What you are shouts at me so loudly that I can't hear a word you say.

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  Goal, Words You Say, I Can

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• Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moon, Journey, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.39, Harvard University Press

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• The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Ties, Insanity

  1876 Letters and Social Aims,'The Comic'.

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• Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches to the door and to the first stair you ascent, that this is the road to the stars.

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  Stars, College, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.162, David R. Godine Publisher

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• One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Boys, College

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.391

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