Browsing Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson, page 2
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to lies within us.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What would be the use of eternity to a person who cannot use well one half hour?
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The doctrine of inspiration is lost… miracles, prophecy… the holy life, exist as ancient history [only]… men have come to speak of… revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead… It is the office of a true teacher to show us that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.
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There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
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Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn from him.
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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 13 Jul 2008 at 10:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 13 Jul 2008 at 9:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!