Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 25

• I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Wish, Mindfulness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Consciousness, Good Company

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.48, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Media, Entertainment

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• Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.247, Courier Corporation

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• We surround ourselves with the true image of ourselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Surround

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• Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Quality, Haste, Heat

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.217, Cosimo, Inc.

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• No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Sacred, Facts

  Essays Circles (p. 297)

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• Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1122, Library of America

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• When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Names, Feet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• The soul circumscribes all things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Oversoul, All Things

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.387, Library of America

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• Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Grows, Angry

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• Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune, a result which he is sure to disappoint. None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice, but only in his high unprecedented way.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Children, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.505, Library of America

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• The health of the eye demands a horizon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Horizon, Demand

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• Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Karma, Encouragement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.151, Harvard University Press

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• To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Wise, Believe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.14, Harvard University Press

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• No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

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  Nature, Law, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Voice, Solitude, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Commitment, Focus And Concentration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.339

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• It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Helping Others, People

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• As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Animal, Intuition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

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  Beautiful, Truth, Honesty

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• If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Men, Brain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1905). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

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• Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Justice, Rewards

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.143, Harvard University Press

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• Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

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  Acceptance, Events, Connections

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.118, Penguin

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• It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Hurt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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