Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 78

• He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Adversity, Soul, Mind

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• When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Sad, Encouragement

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• I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

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  Wish, Littles, Anarchy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.102, Penguin

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• What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.

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  Dream, Character, Public Opinion

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• The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Luxury, Perception

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1912). “Society and solitude”

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• Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Soul, Gardening

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.32, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.

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  Men, Sky, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1069, Delphi Classics

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• though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Toil, Plot

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

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• We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

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  Heart, Men, Garden

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.205

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• Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

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  Meaningful, Memorial Day, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2613, Delphi Classics

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• My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.

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  Inspirational, Fathers Day, Children

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1888). “The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, L834-l872”

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• Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

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  Character, Perception, Thrive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.234

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• Revolutions go not backward.

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  Revolution

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Conduct of Life, Nature, and Other Essays”

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• Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

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  Giving, House, Spirit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

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  Mistake, Individual, Symbols

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1965). “Selected essays, lectures, and poems”, Pocket Books

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• People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

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  Knowing, People, Intellectual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.491, Library of America

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• The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

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  Nature, Method

  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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• I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

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  Wise, Book, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

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  Time, Perfect, Rose

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.27, Xist Publishing

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• Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

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  Men, Calling, Useless

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• Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

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  Leadership, Imagination, Seeing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.194, Penguin

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• When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

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  Book, Years, Long

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• I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.

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  Believe, Islands, Creative

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.240, Library of America

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• All history is biography.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Biographies

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• I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.

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  Suicide, Character, Loss

  "Emerson: Selected Journals 1841 - 1877" by Lawrence Rosenwald (p. 768), 2010.

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