Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 23

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love Is, Wildflowers, Unlikely

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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 man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophical, Men, He Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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• Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Self, Study

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with annotations”

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• Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Voice, Secret, Heroism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1362, Delphi Classics

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• There is more in every person's soul than we think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Soul, Persons

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• Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Ifs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.60, Harvard University Press

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• Our expenses are all for conformity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Individuality, Conformity, Expenses

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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• We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Individuality, Taught, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.35, Penguin

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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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• 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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• Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Single

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• God enters by a private door into every individual.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Faith, Religious

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.60, U of Nebraska Press

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• I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Doctrine

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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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• We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Time, Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.326, Modern Library

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• For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Expression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.222, Harvard University Press

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• You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trying, Helping, Social Work

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• There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Kindness, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.418, Рипол Классик

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• The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Feet, Hiking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.59

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• If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouragement, Integrity, Niece

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.80, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Dream, Men

  "Emerson's Complete Works: Nature, addresses and lectures".

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• Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stuff, Made, Earth And Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.40, Open Road Media

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