Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 59

• People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Long, People, Suffering

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• Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Debt, Pay

  'Solution' (1847)

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• If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Simple, Prosperity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Lovers, Forget

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3195, Delphi Classics

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• We expect a great man to be a good reader.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Men, Lovers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.178, Рипол Классик

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• We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Ideas, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.26, Graphic Arts Books

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• When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats andclothes you have worn out.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Shoes, Hiking, Numbers

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• Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Nature, Order

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1962). “The Portable Emerson”

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• Cunning is strength withheld.

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  Strength, Cunning

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• We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.

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  Life, Nature, Ambition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.20, Penguin

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• In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.

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  Life, Art, Hands

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• Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Europe, America

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• All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

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  Men, History, Shadow

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• A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Men, Egypt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Twelve Essays”, p.10

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• The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Home, House

  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.93, Harvard University Press

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• God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.

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  Morning, Cutting, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4099, Delphi Classics

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• Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Victim, Persecution

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1888). “Emerson's Complete Works: Miscellanies”

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• Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Air, Charity, Philanthropy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.203, Library of America

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• As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

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  Sculpture, Form, Teach

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Twelve Essays”, p.252

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• The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

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  Vices, Saint, Virtue

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• Each mind has its own method.

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  Mind, Method

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

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• The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made ... Now one, now the other gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time, under new names and hot personalities ... Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Fighting, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.279, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Needs, Authorship, Priests

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.40, Рипол Классик

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• Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.

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  Simple, Office, Taste

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• The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Done, Said, Things Done

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.162

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