Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 43

• 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.

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  Truth, Truth Is, Evidence

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

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• We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Freedom, Men, Liberty

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

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  Joy, Soul, Promise

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

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• Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.

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  Men, Liberty, Principles

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1888). “The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, L834-l872”

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• The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

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  Tired, Eye, Long

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.9, Modern Library

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• We change whether we like it or not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change

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• Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

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  Art, Work, Merit

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• The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

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  Trust, Essence, Magnanimity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.70, 谷月社

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• Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

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  Names, Self Reliance, Good And Bad

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Penguin

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• The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.

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  God, Mean, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.307, Bantam Classics

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• Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.

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  Hope, Learning, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1136, Delphi Classics

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• Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Writing, Mood

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2660, Delphi Classics

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• By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.

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  Angel, Men, Sharks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.74, Harvard University Press

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• Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

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  Happiness, Sacrifice, Good Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2581, Delphi Classics

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• The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

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  Inspirational, Men, Expression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.222, Harvard University Press

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• What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  What Matters, Matter, Behinds

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