Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 94

• Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Age, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1003, Library of America

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• Conformity is the ape of harmony.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Apes, Conformity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.492, Harvard University Press

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• All vigor is contagious.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Vigor, Contagious

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.184

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• Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Possibility, Born

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.403, Harvard University Press

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• We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Past, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.413

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• No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Littles, Arithmetic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.82

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• The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, Ornaments

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• Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Color, Say Anything

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.244, Harvard University Press

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• Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Deeds And Words, Purpose

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• The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Diversity, Soul, Scoffers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.391, Library of America

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• An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self Reliance, Shadow

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Individual, Reckless

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.72, North Atlantic Books

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• Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Grass, Duty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.94, Harvard University Press

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• Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Enthusiasm, Height

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “The Power of Emerson's Wisdom”

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• It is in the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe. 'Tis a long scale from the gorilla to the gentleman,--from the gorilla to Plato, Newton, Shakespeare,--to the sanctities of religion, the refinements of legislation, the summit of science, art, and poetry. The beginnings are slow and infirm, but it is an always accelerated march.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Plato, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1905). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

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• Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Kingdoms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856). “Essays”, p.27

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• Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Plato, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Plato, or the philosopher”, p.2, Editora Dracaena

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• Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.

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  Life, People, Intellectual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.478, Library of America

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• The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Frost, Harvest

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.223

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• The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Mass, Chimpanzees

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.450

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• Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dies

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• Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is fire and horse and health and holiday. At least, I find that any success in my work has the effect on my spirits of all these.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Horse, Wine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.318, Courier Corporation

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• A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Chill, Cynicism, Cynic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.157, Harvard University Press

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• The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Foundation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions”

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• No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, History, Perception

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.350, Penguin

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