Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 89

• He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Old Things

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• Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Character, Hair

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.118, Courier Corporation

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• When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  New Day, Looks, Praise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3883, Delphi Classics

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• The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Winter, Night, Tragedy

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• Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Writing, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1655, Delphi Classics

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• A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Littles, Facts

  Lectures and Biographical Sketches The Superlative

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• We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Political, Flattery, Enough

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.96, 谷月社

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• See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Rewards

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1534, Delphi Classics

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• A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Depth, Vivid

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2781, Delphi Classics

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• A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

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  Men, Temples, Facade

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.387, Library of America

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• In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.

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  Pirate, Promise, Clerks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.82, 谷月社

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• Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.

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  Heart, Men, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.13

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• People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.262, Harvard University Press

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• My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

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  Friends, People, Joy

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

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• Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.

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  Friends, Ocean, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.232, Harvard University Press

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• No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sports, Teamwork, Individuality

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• No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

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  Two, Three, Prosperity

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• The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Discovery, Vices, Reform

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.411, Library of America

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• One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Men, Ideas

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• Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made--no matter how indirectly--to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?

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  God, Sweet, Numbers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.174, Penguin

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• To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.

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  Life, Ideas, Orbit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.1

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• Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Men, Broken

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.113, Penguin

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• All my hurts my garden spade can heal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hurt, Garden, Spades

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2007). “Poems”, p.157, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Nothing can be preserved that is not good.

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  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838-1842”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway. This time, like all time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Eye, World

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