Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 19

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Goes On, Littles, Compare

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• Fear is a great instructor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fear, Instructors

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• Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Science, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.7

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• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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• There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morality, Intimate, Intellect

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.400

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• The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Family, Best Effort

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• No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Defeated You, Victory, Matter

  "The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Joy, Said

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.292, Harvard University Press

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• It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  New Beginnings, Soul, Way

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• The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Play, Actors

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• Some people are born very far from home.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, People, Born

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• Poverty consist in feeling poor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Feelings, Poverty, Poor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.98, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Live Life, Waste

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.342, Рипол Классик

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• Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Victory, Done

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• The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Appreciation, Teaching

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• It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Sight, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.272, Harvard University Press

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• When it's dark enough men see stars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Dark, Men

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• For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Determination, Opportunity, Desire

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• Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Art, Husband

  1860 The Conduct of Life,'Wealth'.

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• A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Money, Men

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• Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Way, Fruit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.80, Harvard University Press

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• I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Travel, Memorable

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Meaningful, Power, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.448, Рипол Классик

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• In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Beer

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• The sensual man conforms thoughts to things;
  the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sensual, Poet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.34, Library of America

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