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Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspirational Quotes (2363)

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To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health he must be at the top of his condition.
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I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every wall is a door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
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Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.
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There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect and poets by nature, these we love.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.
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The life of man is a self-evolving circle.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.
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The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it at any rate, brag.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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America is a country of young men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life has a way of demanding that you live it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew… it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.
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Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.
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Character is that which can do without success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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