Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 16

• You never know how you look through other people's eyes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, People, Looks

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• To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Men, Friendly

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Time, Moving Forward

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.241, Harvard University Press

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• Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouragement, Good Life, Learning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2366, Delphi Classics

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• Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Alienation, Intervention

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.85, Harvard University Press

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• Thoughts rule the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.236, Harvard University Press

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• Nature hates calculators.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Hate, Calculators

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.99, Coyote Canyon Press

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• The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perseverance, Teacher, Appreciation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.169, Harvard University Press

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• Thought is the seed of action.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Health, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.18, Harvard University Press

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• A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Eye, Men

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• It is defeat which educates us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Defeat, Educate

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• Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Skills, Depends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.224, Library of America

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• Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Nature, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.137, Courier Corporation

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• The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Serenity, Aim

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.185

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• If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Tree, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.47, North Atlantic Books

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• What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Heart, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Writing, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.201, Penguin

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• Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Positivity, Self Reliance

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

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• Blame is safer than praise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Criticism, Blame, Praise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.129, Penguin

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• A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Men, Dresses

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.76, 谷月社

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• Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Wind, Weather

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.70, Harvard University Press

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• The flowers talk when the wind blows over them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Flower, Blow, Wind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.240, Harvard University Press

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• There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people that did not rank subordination and discipline among the signal virtues. Subjection to moods is the mark of a deteriorating morality. There is no baser servitude than that of the man whose caprices are his masters, and a nation composed of such men could not long preserve its liberties.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Character, Men

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• Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Action, Spontaneity, Spontaneous

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.148

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