Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson sayings, and Ralph Waldo Emerson proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This time, like all times, is a very good time - if we but know what to do with it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The history of persecution is a history of endeavor to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The street is full of humiliations to the proud.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whatever limits us, we call fate.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The language of the street is always strong.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The street is full of humiliations to the proud.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whatever you do you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there will always be someone to tell you that you are wrong.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality.Ralph Waldo Emerson