Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

"Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on money   

"The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on morality
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"If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on motivation
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"Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on murder   

"Music causes us to think eloquently."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on music
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"I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nationalities and nationalism
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"Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature
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"A man is related to all nature."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature   

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"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature   

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"Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature
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"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature   

"In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature   

"The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature   

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"We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature   

"To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature   

"Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature
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"Make yourself necessary to somebody."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on necessity   

"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on necessity   

"Necessity does everything well."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on necessity   

"We do what we must, and call it by the best names."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on necessity
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"No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nicknames   

"The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on obedience   

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"As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on obstacles
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"Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on opinions
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"The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on opinions   

"Be an opener of doors."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on opportunity   

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on opportunity
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"If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on opportunity   

"Every wall is a door."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on opportunity   

"Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on opposites   

"Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on parents and parenting   

"Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on passion
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"Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on patience
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"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on peace
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"Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on peace
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"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on peace
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"The people are to be taken in small doses."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on people
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"Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on people   

"It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on performance   

"The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on persecution