Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 38

The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The education of the will is the object of our existence. View quote
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Blame is safer than praise. View quote
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A day for toil, an hour for sport, But for a friend is life too short. View quote
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When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own h. View quote
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A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. View quote
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If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner. View quote
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The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment. View quote
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Wherever work is done, victory is attained. View quote
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All great men come out of the middle classes. View quote
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Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Life is a festival only to the wise. View quote
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We have more than we use. View quote
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Sorrow makes us children again. View quote
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No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory. View quote
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The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine. View quote
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The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more. View quote
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The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings. View quote
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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot. View quote
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Every thing is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience. View quote
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Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze. View quote
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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew. View quote
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Love is the essence of God. View quote
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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. View quote
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Occupation: American Philosopher
Born: May 25, 1803
Died: April 27, 1882
Quotes count: 1647
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