Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 152

• Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Growing Up, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Long, Needs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.272

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• The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Profound, Age, Active

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.268, Penguin

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• We go to Europe to be Americanized.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Europe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.161, Harvard University Press

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• The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Events, Praying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.325

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• A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Mind, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.111, Harvard University Press

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• I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fiction, Literature, Biographies

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.

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  Political, Principles, Fiction

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1913). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

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  Fiction, Preference, Novel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.247, Harvard University Press

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• Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

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  Freedom, Stealing, Goodness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.177, Courier Corporation

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• Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

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  Freedom, Iron, Liberty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.71, North Atlantic Books

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• God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.

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  Friends, Powerful, Doe

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• The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Pay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.98

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• Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

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  God, Running, Desert

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, World, Made

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.43, Penguin

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• No society can ever be so large as one man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Individual, One Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1526, Delphi Classics

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• The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Differences, Quality, Egyptian

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.965, Library of America

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• The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World, Bread, Finest

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.

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  Heart, Wrinkles, Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bliss Perry (1926). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.306, Courier Corporation

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• We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Forgiving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3933, Delphi Classics

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• The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Use, Bullets

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.224, Harvard University Press

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• A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

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  Creativity, Tree, Becoming

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.244, Library of America

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• The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Waiting, Painting, Praise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sky, Poet, Made

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• People who know how to act are never preachers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Preacher, Know How

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.82, Harvard University Press

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