Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 42

• Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Other Worlds, Atheism, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.269, University of Georgia Press

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• How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Girl, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.197, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Public Opinion, Looks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.231, Courier Corporation

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• When we can't piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let Him help put you together.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Views, Together, Pieces

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• The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration of humility, there is no question of continuance. No inspired man ever asks this question, or condescends to these evidences. For the soul is true to itself, and the man in whom it is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite, to a future which would be finite.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Humility, Men, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.303, Modern Library

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• Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, Perfection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.111

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• You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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  Heart, Fire, Burning

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• Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished of his proportion; and the stricter theunion, the smaller and the more pitiful he is. But leave him alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul, he will go up and down doing the works of a true member, and, to the astonishment of all, the work will be done with concert, though no man spoke.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Soul, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1527, Delphi Classics

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• Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Journey, Destination

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• The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teaching, Government, Bully

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1913). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sin, Come Up

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.178, Penguin

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• Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Answers, Problem

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.437

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• Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.260, Library of America

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• Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Might, Causes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.211, Penguin

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• It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Rely, Seems

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.122, Penguin

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• Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Differences, Mind, Different

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.161

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• The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Understanding, Affection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.18, Рипол Классик

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• Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Courage, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.43, Harvard University Press

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• Friendship buys friendship.

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  Friendship

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.66, Harvard University Press

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• There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World, Rogues, Dens

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.297, Library of America

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• Accuracy is essential to beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Essentials, Accuracy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.351, Modern Library

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• Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Heaven, Deceived

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.188, Harvard University Press

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• Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Speech, Next, Provocative

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• Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Believe, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.308

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• We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Valuable

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.50, Penguin

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