Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 17

• Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Wise, Wisdom

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• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.128, Harvard University Press

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• The true philosopher and the true poet are one,
  and a beauty, which is truth,
  and a truth, which is beauty,
  is the aim of both.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosopher, Poet, Aim

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.44, Bantam Classics

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• A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Love You, Heart

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• Desire is possibility seeking expression.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Expression, Desire, Possibility

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• A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Hate, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2631, Delphi Classics

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• The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean Girls, Women, Age

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• Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dance, Men, Goal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3100, Delphi Classics

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• Men are respectable only as they respect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Army, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

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• When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Communication, Humor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.410

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• Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Universe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.30, Harvard University Press

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• If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Facts, Window

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

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• The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Friendship, Relationship

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.253, Harvard University Press

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• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Mom, Mother

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• I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Gambling, Risk

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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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• Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Wise, Men

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• Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Expression, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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• As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Laughter, Wine, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.253, Penguin

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• A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• The world belongs to the energetic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.123

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• The universe
  is the externalization of the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Universe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Lazy, Laziness

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• The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Matter, Speak

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• Fear is a great instructor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fear, Instructors

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