Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 53

• Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Suffering, Lessons

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.203, Harvard University Press

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• Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Looks, Wonderful, Can Do

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• A bullet had found him, his blood ran out as he cried. No money could save him, so he laid down and died. Ooh, what a lucky man he was.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Blood, Politics

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• Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Profound, Ladders, Littles

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• All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Tools, Earth

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• Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Science, Law

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• In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Civilization, Delight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.143

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• The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  History, Evil, Lessons

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• Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Men, Feet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.170, Harvard University Press

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• Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouragement, Nature, Errors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketches”

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• Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Light, Ebb And Flow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.137, Penguin

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• The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

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  Immortality, Blazing, Evidence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

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  Men, Beast, Descending

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

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• A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Soul, Vigor

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• Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, Helping

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.37

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• Society does not love its unmaskers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Society, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.506, Harvard University Press

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• Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.

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  Life, Sky, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.418

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• I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

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  Success, Lying, Hate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.298, Library of America

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• Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Selfish, Umpires

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.185, Penguin

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• Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.

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  Work, Men, Aptitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2514, Delphi Classics

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• Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Would Be, Politics, Sincere

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.

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  Army, Men, Cities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.172, Рипол Классик

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• And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.

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  Fate, Men, Justice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.83, Penguin

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• Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

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  Lying, Fate, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Learning, College

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.419, Library of America

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