Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 14

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it. View quote
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Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours. View quote
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The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine. View quote
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I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions. View quote
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There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us. View quote
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To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. View quote
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Patience and fortitude conquer all. View quote
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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs. View quote
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Common sense is as rare as genius. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The never-ending task of self improvement. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship. View quote
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The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul. View quote
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How much of human life is lost in waiting. View quote
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Character is that which can do without success. View quote
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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. View quote
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The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. View quote
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It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other. View quote
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed. View quote
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If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as "spiritual life,” "God,” "soul,” "cross,” etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent. View quote
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Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live. View quote
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Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty. View quote
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