Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 49

Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. View quote
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Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world. View quote
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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart. View quote
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There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure. View quote
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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. View quote
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The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder. View quote
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Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line. View quote
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The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it. View quote
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In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us. View quote
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Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits. View quote
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Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise. View quote
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The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature. View quote
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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power. View quote
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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor. View quote
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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs. View quote
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The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices. View quote
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In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks. View quote
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See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward. View quote
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No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Work'I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply. View quote
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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. View quote
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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause. View quote
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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books. 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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