Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 52

• He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Determination, Men, Decision

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.71, Harvard University Press

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• Truth is the summit of being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Truth Is, Summit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.330, Modern Library

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• It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.

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  Religious, Intelligent, Competition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1209, Delphi Classics

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• It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Judging, Creative

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.334, Modern Library

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• Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Students, Conversation

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• If the race is good, so is the place.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Race, Ifs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traits”, p.42, Harvard University Press

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• But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.

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  Soul, Encounters, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.315, Library of America

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• Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All

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  Different Faces, Different, Faces

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.41, Harvard University Press

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• A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.

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  Feet, Break Off, Waiting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.147, Harvard University Press

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• Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Nature, Color

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.17, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

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  Character, Levels, Welcome

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2602, Delphi Classics

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• Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Hands, Solitude

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• I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

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  Thinking, Slavery, Slave

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

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  Drinking, Giving, Feelings

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• Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Men, Law

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• It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suffering, Injustice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.349

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• To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.

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  Real, Men, Fire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2442, Delphi Classics

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• All promise outruns performance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Commitment, Promise, Performances

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• The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Self Reliance, Spirit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.28, Coyote Canyon Press

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• The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.

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  Men, One Direction, Skills

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.283, University of Georgia Press

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• Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sleep, Waking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.40, The Floating Press

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• What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Effort, Bird, Cost

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.163, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes; and in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character; persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.

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  Rain, Character, Bridges

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.488

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• The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, - that we find we have (a common Nature) - one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.

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  Running, Art, Men

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• An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.

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  Book, Character, Mean

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