Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 39

Language is the archives of history. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. View quote
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Accept your genius and say what you think. View quote
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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. View quote
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Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly ads to our power and enlarges our field of action. View quote
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To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. View quote
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Everything intercepts us from ourselves. View quote
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Real action is in silent moments. View quote
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Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices. View quote
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Every great man is unique. View quote
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Our expenses are all for conformity. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself. View quote
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Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well. View quote
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Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell. View quote
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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry. View quote
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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go. View quote
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Work and thou canst escape the reward whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought. View quote
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The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic. View quote
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A strenuous soul hates cheap success. View quote
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The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. View quote
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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.... The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Nature hates monopolies and exceptions. View quote
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Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay. View quote
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Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint. View quote
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As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world. View quote
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