Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 50

• The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

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  Life, Positive, Happiness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.422

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• He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Secret, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.20, 谷月社

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• To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Decide Upon, Soldier

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• Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

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  Power, Delight, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.84, University of Georgia Press

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• Every reform was once a private opinion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reform, Opinion, Catchy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.16, Graphic Arts Books

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• We never touch but at points.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Solitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.279, Harvard University Press

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• I think it is the best of humanity that goes out to walk. In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for walking.

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  Thinking, Humanity, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3145, Delphi Classics

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• When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Plato, Ideas, Debtors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.14

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• We wake from one dream into another dream.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Illusion, Flakes

  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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• A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tree, Immigration, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Inheritance, Quarrels

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson (1904). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes”

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• Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

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  Football, Law, Games

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• Commonsense is the wick of the candle.

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  Inspirational, Candle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.177, University of Missouri Press

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• The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

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  Sex, Two, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4042, Delphi Classics

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• This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.

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  Strong, Men, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.15, Modern Library

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• A man is a god in ruins.

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  God, Art, Philosophy

  Nature ch. 8 (1836).

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• We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

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  Learning, States, Learners

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “The Power of Emerson's Wisdom”

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• Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Surprise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.483, Library of America

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• Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

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  Years, Worry, Hundred

  Representative Men "Montaigne; or the Skeptic" (1850)

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• A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.

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  Men, Garden, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.357

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• The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.

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  Exercise, Civilization, People

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• Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.

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  Intuition, Hours, Susceptible

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.92, Penguin

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• Only poetry inspires poetry.

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  Poetry, Inspire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.171

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• At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. The knapsack of custom falls off his back with the first step he makes into these precincts. Here is sanctity which shames our religions, and reality which discredits our heroes. Here we find Nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance, and judges like a god all men that come to her.

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  Wise, Fall, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.541, Library of America

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• Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Knowledge, Knowing

  "The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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