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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Marriage, Men, Together

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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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• 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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• The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tired, Eye, Long

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.9, Modern Library

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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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• 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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• 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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• Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Expression, Mind Blowing, Infinite

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Personality, Healthy, Looks

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Religion, Spirituality

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• We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

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  Motivational, Hope, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.44, Penguin

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• The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Mistake, Lines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4050, Delphi Classics

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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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• We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

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  Mark, Aim, Exaggeration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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

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  Thinking, Done, Can Do

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

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• But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Looks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.88, Bantam Classics

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