Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 13

• That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The education of the will is the object of our existence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, School, Existence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2508, Delphi Classics

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• What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Thinking, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.12, Penguin

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• Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Expression, Mind Blowing, Infinite

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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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• As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Principles, May

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• Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Marriage, Men, Together

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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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• The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Broken Heart, Motivation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thank You God, Faces, Hours

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.76, North Atlantic Books

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• You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Solitude, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.12, Penguin

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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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• There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Men, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.209, Harvard University Press

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• Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Imagination

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.478, Рипол Классик

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• The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Religion, Spirituality

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• Hitch your wagon to a star.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Quoted in Moncare D. Conway, The Golden Hour (1862)

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• Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Time, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.403, Library of America

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• Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Children, Parenting

  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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• Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Relationship, Family, Trust

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.365, Library of America

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• A friend is the hope of the heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.507, Library of America

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• The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Inspiration, Opportunity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.340, University of Georgia Press

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• Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Nature, Glory

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• All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Done, Can Do

  "Emerson: The Mind on Fire". Book by Robert D. Richardson (p. 69), March 6, 1995.

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• There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Grief, Reality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• Knowledge exists to be imparted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Education, Teaching

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.226, Рипол Классик

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