Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 29

• The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why the plain, or meadow of space, was strown with these flowers we call suns, and moons, and stars; why the deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for, in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought.

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  Horse, Stars, Flower

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.192, Penguin

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• The only prudence in life is concentration.

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  Life, Focus And Concentration, Prudence

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• We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

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  Kindness, Wind, Selfishness

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• Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has noprescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

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  God, Men, Events

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1369, Delphi Classics

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• Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

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  Fitness, Health, Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.227

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• Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.

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  Secret, Religion, Towers

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• Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

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  Strong, Party, Government

  Address delivered on the anniversary of the emancipation of the negroes in the British West Indies, Concord, Mass., 1 Aug. 1844

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• Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong

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  Men, Giving, Dollars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.22, Coyote Canyon Press

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• God has delegated himself to a million deputies.

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  Angel, Deputies, Millions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.118, Harvard University Press

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• Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.

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  Horse, Passion, Games

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• Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.

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  Weed, War, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.74, 谷月社

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• Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

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  Money, Mean, Conceited

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2148, Delphi Classics

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• Others can get in your way temporarily, but only you can get out of your way permanently. Our best thoughts come from others.

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  Way

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• Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

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  Positive, Heart, Law Of Attraction

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• A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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  Friendship, Relationship, Patience

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Friendship'.

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• The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

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  Wisdom, Time, Work

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.99, Penguin

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• The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

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  Eye, Soul, Lazy Eyes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2329, Delphi Classics

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• There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

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  Party, Loss, Ungrateful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.21

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• Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

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  Greatness, Men, Long

  "Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.

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  Leadership, Kings, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.303

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• Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

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  Character, World, Opinion

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• Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

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  Sympathy, Atmosphere, Wells

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.

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  Fall, Adversity, Victory

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.117, Harvard University Press

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• The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

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  Love, Marriage, Acceptance

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• Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is.

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  Religious, Men, Long

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.84, Open Road Media

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