Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Calm

“Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.”

Nature Wind Weather

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Wise

“The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.”

Lying Errors Blow

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Creative

“If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.”

Life Eye

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Optimistic

“Hitch your wagon to a star.”

Inspirational Life

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Grateful

“We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.”

Inspirational Life Motivational

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Philosophical

“You cannot see the mountain near.”

Mountain

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Hopeful

“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”

Time Vision

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Philosophical

“When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years?”

Years Running Plato

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Hopeful

“Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.”

Thinking Meaningful Power

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Rebellious

“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”

Men Art

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Wise

“Men are respectable only as they respect.”

Men Army

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Confident

“Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.”

Mean Soul Work

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