Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 39

• Plant your DREAMS and miracles will grow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Miracle, Plant

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• Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Military, Hero, History

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.374, Library of America

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• A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

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  Horse, Men, Hypocrisy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.650, Harvard University Press

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• In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear. What he did, he did, he did because he must; it was the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of the circumstances of the moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Two, Depth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.158, Penguin

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• Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tree, Environment, Ends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.73, Harvard University Press

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• Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Writing, Language

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1977). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1852-1855”, p.78, Harvard University Press

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• What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Healthy, Preacher

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.22, Modern Library

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• We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world, through a few brains. The arts and institutions of men are created out of thought. The powers that make the capitalist are metaphysical, the force of method and force of will makes trade, and builds towns.

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  Art, Book, Men

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• Look out! Behind you!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stupidity, Looks, Behind You

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• Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sunset, Differences, Feet

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• The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

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  Doe, Jest, Earnest

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.1, Editora Dracaena

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• It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hands, Doctrine, Wickedness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.335

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• A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Women, Weakness, Might

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Anxiety, Reputation, Solar System

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.423

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• Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.

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  Expression, Soul, Individuality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2447, Delphi Classics

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• The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.

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  Time, Past, Made

  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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• I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste, that the fashions follow a law of gradation, and are never arbitrary. The new mode is always only a step onward in the same direction as the last mode; and a cultivated eye is prepared for and predicts the new fashion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Eye, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.156, Harvard University Press

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• Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

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  Fashion, Growing Up, Violence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1467, Delphi Classics

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• We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.

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  Life, Firsts, Causes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1857). “Essays: First Series”, p.56

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• Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.

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  Class, Two, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2360, Delphi Classics

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• Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Rays, Atoms

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• All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Natural, Nobility, Superiority

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.243

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• Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Politics, Handicrafts, Poisonous

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.335

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• Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.

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  White, Trying, Dresses

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.406, Harvard University Press

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• The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Study, Resources, Attributes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.206

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