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Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspirational Quotes (2363)

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Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sleep is not, death is not Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid, Day's toil and it's guerdon, They are all vanishing, Fleeing to fables, Cannot be moored
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Beauty through my senses stole I yielded myself to the perfect whole.
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Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
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Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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We must be our own before we can be another's.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me.
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If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.
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Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.
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I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.
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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
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Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.
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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
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We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.
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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
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Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.
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I see my trees repair their boughs.
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If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.
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He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.
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The health of the eye demands a horizon.
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I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.
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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.
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If you act, you show character if you sit still, you show it if you sleep you show it.
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A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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