Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 13

• It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Patience, Cheating, Truth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Men, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.502

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• Life is a festival only to the wise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.48, North Atlantic Books

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• Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Powerful, Enthusiasm For Life, Might

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• Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Ambition, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.140, Penguin

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• What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, School, Reflection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1966). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1824-1838”, p.19, Harvard University Press

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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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• You are constantly invited to be what you are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Invited

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• You cannot see the mountain near.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mountain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1623, Delphi Classics

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• Beauty rests on necessities.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.95

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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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• Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Coffee, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.451, Harvard University Press

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• Life is our dictionary.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Life Is, Dictionary

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1107, Delphi Classics

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Expression, Mind Blowing, Infinite

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• There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Kind, Trifles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Linda Allardt (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.97, Harvard University Press

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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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• Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cutting, Alive

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