Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 55

• Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Food, Eating Good

  1844 Essays: Second Series,'Nature'.

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• A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Baby, Children

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• Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Positivity, Lines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Linda Allardt (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Harvard University Press

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• There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Littles, Performers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.283, Harvard University Press

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• If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Fate, Destiny

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• I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Purpose, Sovereign

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

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• My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Unique, Medicine, Battle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.24

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• For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Air, Poetry

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.187, Penguin

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• We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Change, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Book, Beer

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.134, 谷月社

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• Every hero becomes a bore at last.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Badass, Hipster

  'Representative Men' (1850) 'Uses of Great Men'

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• Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Courage, Money

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.332, Harvard University Press

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• Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Courage

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.292, University of Georgia Press

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• We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Spiritual, Long

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• If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Men, Pigs

  Journal, Feb. 1855

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• One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Differences, Forgiving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.234, Рипол Классик

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• Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Transition, Spirit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.413, Library of America

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• All diseases run into one, old age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Funny Relationship, Hair

  Journals

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• Every burned book enlightens the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, World, Censorship

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• Children are all foreigners.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Success, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.245, Harvard University Press

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• Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Teaching, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.421, Penguin

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• Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, World, Influence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “Essays”, p.147, 1st World Publishing

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• There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Reading, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.233, Harvard University Press

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• The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Army, Men, Sailing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.172

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• If we live truly, we shall see truly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Work, Positivity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.142, Harvard University Press

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