Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 27

• A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Hero, Men

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• In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Character, Men

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• Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Life, Courage

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• He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.4

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• In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happy Friday, Men, Advice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.238, Harvard University Press

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• Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Wish, Vices

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.203

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• By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Creative, Delight, Warp

  Letters and Social Aims "Quotation and Originality" (1876)

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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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• He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Garden, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.154, Graphic Arts Books

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• When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Ignorance, Skills

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.55

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• We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.

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  Heaven, Pilots, Way

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.142, University of Georgia Press

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• Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wine, Weather, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Emerson: Poems”, p.36, Everyman's Library

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• A little integrity is better than any career.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Integrity, Careers, Littles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.233, University of Missouri Press

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• Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Powerful, Spring, Passion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1966). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1824-1838”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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• The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Real, People

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• Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Today, Tomorrow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1279, Delphi Classics

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• Obedience alone gives the right to command.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Military, Giving, Obedience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.298, University of Georgia Press

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• Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sight, Genius, Consistent

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• Language is the archives of history.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  History, Historical, Archives

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.457, Library of America

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• All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Naps, Life Is

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• Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Exercise, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.65, 谷月社

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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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• Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Cynical, Haste

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• Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Doe, Lessons

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.4, Coyote Canyon Press

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• A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Men, Want

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.396

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