Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 18

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Lazy, Laziness

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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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• Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

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  Rude, Individuality, Wish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2360, Delphi Classics

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• You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

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  Cities, Rivers, Way

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851”, p.218, Harvard University Press

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• We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Morning, Philosophy

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

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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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• Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way we are strong, by borrowing the might of the elements. The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day and cost us nothing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Stars, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.437, Harvard University Press

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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 secret in education lies in respecting the student.

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  Education, Teacher, Philosophy

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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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• In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Fear, Failure

  Essays "Prudence" (1841)

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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 ancestor of every action is a thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Knowledge, Positive Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.53, Penguin

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• The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

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  Truth, Lying, Character

  The Conduct of Life "Worship" (1860)

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• Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

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  Motivational, Gambling, Luck

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.282, Library of America

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• Money often costs too much.

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  Life, Money, Greatest Wealth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Health, Garden

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1166, Delphi Classics

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• I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . .

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  Friendship, Thanks, I Am Thankful

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• Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

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  Song, Learning, Knowledge

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• Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

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• What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you.

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  Goes On, Littles, Compare

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• Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouragement, Money, Remember

  1870 Society and Solitude,'Works and Days'.

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• I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  House, Wish, Chemicals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.7, Harvard University Press

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