Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on enthusiasm
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"Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on envy
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"Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on equality
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"There is no one who does not exaggerate!"

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"'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration."

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"The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on example   

"There is always a best way of doing everything."

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"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on exercise
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"Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity."

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"How much of human life is lost in waiting."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on expectation
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"Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds."

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"The more experiments you make the better."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on experience
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"I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it."

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"The eye is easily frightened."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on eyes
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"The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on eyes
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"A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants."

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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."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on facts
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"Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side."

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"Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts."

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"No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back."

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"Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on faith
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"All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."

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"The course of everything goes to teach us faith."

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"The faith that stands on authority is not faith."

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"Fame is proof that the people are gullible."

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"The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near."

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"The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land."

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"Whatever limits us we call fate."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fate
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"If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fate
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"Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence."

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"A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on faults
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"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fear
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"Fear always springs from ignorance."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fear
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"Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain."

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"Always do what you are afraid to do."

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"We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on finance
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"Earth laughs in flowers."

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"Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world."

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"Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on focus
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"The only prudence in life is concentration."

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