Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 23

• Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Kindness, Compassion

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Our expenses are all for conformity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Individuality, Conformity, Expenses

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• To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Valuable

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2367, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Disease, Want

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.287, Harvard University Press

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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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• 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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• My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Guests, Faces

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.407

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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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• 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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• It is rare to find a man who believes in his own thoughts or speaks that which he is created to say. As nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing, so nothing is more rare in any man than an act of his own...feel yourself, and be not daunted by things...The light by which we see this world comes out from the soul of the observer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Men, Light

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Lying, Character

  The Conduct of Life "Worship" (1860)

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• What a new face courage puts on everything!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Success, Courage

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.336, University of Georgia Press

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• The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Esteem, Pride, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “Lectures and Biographical Sketches”

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• Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Sight, Cynical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.407

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• Live in the sunshine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sunshine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.213

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