Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 26

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

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  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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• Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our lips, has a wonderful virtue, surpassing that of any other draught. It opens the senses, adds power, fills us with exalted dreams, which we call hope, love, ambition, science; especially it creates a craving for larger draughts of itself.

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  Dream, Time, Coffee

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.284

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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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• I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Kings, Strikes

  "Felix Frankfurter Reminisces". Book by Harlan B. Phillips, p. 59, 1960.

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• The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

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  Teacher, Influence, Virtue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.471, Harvard University Press

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

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  Beautiful, Truth, Honesty

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• Activity is contagious.

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  Contagious, Activity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851”, p.12, 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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• But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.

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  Inspirational, Peace, Power

  "A Year with Emerson: A Daybook".

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• Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

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  Communication, Say Anything, Use

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.435, Рипол Классик

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• Knowledge is the antidote to fear,-
  Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

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  Knowledge, Use, Reason

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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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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• Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

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  Life, Happiness, Dream

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.473, Library of America

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• Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

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  Encouraging, Nature, Power

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1003, Library of America

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• Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?

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  Book, Men, Garden

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.145, Graphic Arts Books

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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.

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

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  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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• Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

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  Nature, Mind, Made

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.208, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

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  Inspiration, Passion, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

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  Kings, Men, One Day

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.522, Harvard University Press

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• To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

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  Excellence, Outstanding, Accomplish

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• Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

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  Truth, Choices, Mind

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• Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Being Different

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

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• Books are for nothing but to inspire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Inspiration, Inspire

  "The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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