Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 5

• One idea lights a thousand candles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Light, Ideas, Ideation

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• Every wall is a door.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Wall, Attitude

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• Your genuine action will explain itself, and
  will explain your other genuine actions.
  Your conformity explains nothing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Action, Conformity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

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• People only see what they are prepared to see.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Change, Spiritual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.514, Harvard University Press

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• Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Powerful, Greatness, Use

  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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• When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rooms, Happy Person, Lit

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• If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Good Night, Stars, Farewell

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• The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Revelations, Every Man

  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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• Enthusiasm is the engine of success.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Congratulations, Enthusiasm, Engines

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• A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Essentials, Routine

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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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• Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Patience, Be Patient

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• Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Healing, I Hate You

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.129, Harvard University Press

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• Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Leadership, Causes

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• We boil at different degrees.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Anger, Being Different

  'Society and Solitude' (1870) 'Eloquence'

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• Be not the slave of your own past.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Slave, Plunge

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.106, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Fear, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.181, Harvard University Press

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• Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Envy, Pay, Distinction

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1961). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: 1822-1826”, p.202, Harvard University Press

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• The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Use, Comes And Goes, Ifs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.168, Рипол Классик

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• Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teamwork, Honesty, Integrity

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• The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Men, Race

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1253, Delphi Classics

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• We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Healing, Animal, Moon

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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• Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Bible, Spiritual, Reading

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• If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail--and you eventually will if you stick to the job--they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jobs, World, Sticks

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• Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom

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