Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

"Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on acceptance
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"Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

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"A man is a god in ruins."

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"The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on affection
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"We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on age and aging
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"Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters."

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"It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay."

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"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

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"The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder."

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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."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on desire
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"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?"

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"Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on destiny
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"Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated."

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"'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on diets and dieting
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"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on disasters
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"Self-command is the main discipline."

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"If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on discovery
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"All diseases run into one. Old age."

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"There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, Anywhere but here."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow."

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"Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do."

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"Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on duty
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"Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on economy and economics
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"I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"The secret in education lies in respecting the student."

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"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."

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"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education."

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"The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions."

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"The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief."

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"An empire is an immense egotism."

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"Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on energy
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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on enthusiasm
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"Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it."

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"Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding."

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