Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 64

We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms Out of the invisible world, through a few brains. The arts and institutions of men are created out of thought. The powers that make the capitalist are metaphysical, the force of method and force of will makes trade, and builds towns. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face. View quote
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The good rain, like the bad preacher, does not know when to leave off. View quote
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Why should we be cowed by the name of Action. View quote
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We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause. View quote
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All great natures delight in stability all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties. View quote
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The religion that is afraid of science dishoners God and commits suicide. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect. View quote
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A good intention but fixed and resolute bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment and even obstacles and opposition will but make us 'like the fabled specter-ships,' which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind. View quote
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We feed on genius great men exist that there might be greater men. View quote
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The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit friendship in possession. View quote
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Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding. View quote
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Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start. View quote
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Insist upon yourself. Be original. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say even though we may repeat the words ever so often. View quote
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What your heart thinks great is great. The souls emphasis is always right. View quote
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Universities are, of course, hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints. View quote
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The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas. View quote
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Self command is the main discipline. View quote
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The people are to be taken in small doses. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens within the flower of the pleasure that concealed it. View quote
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To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine man. View quote
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Life is too short to waste ... Twill soon be dark Up mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line. View quote
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