Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 41

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel At the creation of light and of the world. View quote
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The only prudence in life is concentration. View quote
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People say law but they mean wealth. View quote
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Men are respectable only as they respect. View quote
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Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action. View quote
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Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow. View quote
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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil. View quote
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Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs. View quote
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There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it. View quote
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Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. View quote
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Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour. View quote
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The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade. View quote
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Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day. View quote
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Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree. View quote
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An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas. View quote
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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power. View quote
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Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs. View quote
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Every man believes he has a greater possibility. View quote
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Beauty rests on necessities. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
All necessary truth is its own evidence. View quote
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Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art. View quote
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A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text. View quote
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Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn. 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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