Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 24

• Fate is unpenetrated causes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Causes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.331

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• Do the thing and you will have the power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Power, Acting

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• Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Games, Play, Skills

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• The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Men, Generosity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.133, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Desire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.176, Harvard University Press

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• Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Player, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.350

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• There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Optical Illusions, Transcendentalism, Illusion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.229, Harvard University Press

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• Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Extras

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• The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiring, Education, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2745, Delphi Classics

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• My life is not an apology, but a life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Apology, Life Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.24

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• Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Political, Voting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1977). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1852-1855”, p.304, Harvard University Press

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• Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Savages, Elements

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.427, Harvard University Press

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• Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Men, Action

  1850 Representative Men,'Goethe'.

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• If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Odds, Criticism, Genius

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• If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World, Ifs, Amused

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “Essays”, p.180, 1st World Publishing

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• The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Peace, War

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• We read often with as much talent as we write.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Writing, Talent

  "The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cheating

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• How much of human life is lost in waiting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Waiting, Losing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.364, Library of America

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• No man can have society upon his own terms.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Society, Term

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.178, Harvard University Press

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• Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Conversation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.144, Harvard University Press

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• When there is no vision, people perish.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Vision, Visualization

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• There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Degrees, Fixture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.93, Graphic Arts Books

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• Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Flower, Sunshine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.535, Library of America

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• What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Eye, My Friends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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