Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 22

• Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. 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. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Sadness, Home

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A man is what he thinks about all day long.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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• Knowledge is the only elegance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Philosophy, Knowledge

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.146, University of Georgia Press

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• Love is like wildflowers;
  It's often found in the most unlikely places.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love Is, Wildflowers, Unlikely

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• For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts; that all men value the few real hours of life; they love to be heard; they love to be caught up into the vision of principles. We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had, in the dreary years of routine and of sin, with souls that made our souls wiser; that spoke what we thought; that told us what we knew; that gave us leave to be what we only were.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Real, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.89, Library of America

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• Give all to love; Obey thy heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Love You, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.81, Harvard University Press

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cities, Rivers, Way

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

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• Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Doe, Impossible

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.217, University of Georgia Press

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• The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Men, Thinking

  1860 The Conduct of Life,'Fate'.

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• The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Mistake, Lines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4050, Delphi Classics

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• It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Regret, Outlook, Rejoice

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• There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Names, May, Morality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.13, Harvard University Press

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• The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

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  Forgiveness, Differences, Forgiving

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• It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Integrity, Self Esteem

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.97, University of Georgia Press

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• What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so we are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3078, Delphi Classics

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• Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Regret, Plato

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.56, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  House, Heaven, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.48, Library of America

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• I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Son, Pay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.121, Harvard University Press

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• It is a luxury to be understood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Luxury, Understanding, Understood

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1826-1832”

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• Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Opportunity, Doors, Self

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• Every man I meet is in some way my superior...

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Advice

  As quoted in "Think", Vol. 4-5, (p. 32), 1938.

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• The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Speech, Cures

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.221, Delphi Classics

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• The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Imagination, Fantasy

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• The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Friendship, Prayer

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions”

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