Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 43

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Journey, Destination

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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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• Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Motor Racing, Car

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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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• 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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• Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiration, Character, Mean

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• A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Truth, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.154

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• All necessary truth is its own evidence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Truth Is, Evidence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• Friendship buys friendship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  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 must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.163

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• [D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Providence, Universe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.259, Harvard University Press

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• A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intelligent, Cheerful, Culture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.37

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• There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hours, Strive, Destruction

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Looks, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.48, Library of America

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• Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Cost, Too Much

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving Up, Thinking, Giving

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• Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Men, Liberty

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• Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Joy, Soul, Promise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.77

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