Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 99

• I like people who like Plato.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Plato, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.390

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• Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in the river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Taken, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.218, Modern Library

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• They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Fear, Destiny

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.84, Penguin

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• The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Simplicity, Understanding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.98, Graphic Arts Books

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• America means opportunity, freedom, power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Military, Mean, Opportunity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.285, University of Missouri Press

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• The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. For, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Belief

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Mean, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.134, Graphic Arts Books

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• When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, World, Dupes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1362, Delphi Classics

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• He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Would Be, Great Souls

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• We pass for what we are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.356, University of Georgia Press

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• Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Eye, Sky

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.447, Penguin

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• Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Christian, Children, Flower

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• Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Evil, Cold, Beats

  Address in Divinity College, americanliterature.com. July 15, 1838.

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• Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Accounts, Has Beens

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.316, Harvard University Press

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• When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Science, Power

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.165

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• The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Foundation, Culture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2630, Delphi Classics

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• All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Greatness, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1098, Delphi Classics

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• We live ruins amid ruins.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Powerful, Genius, Labor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.93, Penguin

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• The world is his who has money to go over it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, World, Over It

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.366

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• The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Victory, Instant

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.390

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• We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Men, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4249, Delphi Classics

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• The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm, and in the miscellany of metropolitan life, and that these few are alone to be regarded,--the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love what is simple and beautiful; independence and cheerful relation, these are the essentials,--these, and the wish to serve,--to add somewhat to the well-being of men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Happiness, Beautiful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.427

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• It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Philosophy, Long

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.209, Harvard University Press

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• Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Vanity, Profound, Veins

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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