Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 25

• When there is no vision, people perish.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Vision, Visualization

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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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• 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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• 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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• Character is that which can do without success.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Character, Humility

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We surround ourselves with the true image of ourselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Surround

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Grows, Angry

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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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  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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• 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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• 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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• The only prudence in life is concentration.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Focus And Concentration, Prudence

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• The health of the eye demands a horizon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Horizon, Demand

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