Tag: ralph waldo emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bare lists of words
“Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.” —-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: God playing the fool
“Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool. It seems as if heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum. And here they will break out into their native music, and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven; then the mad fit returns,…
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Eternal public
‘The effect of any writing on the public mind is mathematically measurable by its depth of thought…If it awaken you to think, if it lift you from your feet with a great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men; if the pages instruct you not,…
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nothing can bring you peace but yourself
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: To have succeded
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of the intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the beauty in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden…
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Beauty of the good
“Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Every day
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Thin ice
“In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lengthened shadow
“Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (25 May 1803-1882).
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Dictionary
“The raw material of possible poems and histories.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist and poet, on dictionary (1803-1882).
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Best day in the year
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. —Ralph Waldo Emerson. Embed from Getty Images
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Life
“Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.” Ralph Waldo Emerson. Embed from Getty Images
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Courage
“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. ” Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Burning books
Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. –Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882).
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Star wagon
“Hitch your wagon to a star.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Embed from Getty Images
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Time
“Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions: the surest poison is time.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Embed from Getty Images
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Years and days
“The years teach much which the days never know.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Amos Bronson Alcott: Thought
“Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man. ” Amos Bronson Alcott Related articles Quotes of the Week | Let’s Grow (aquaterra.tv) Channeling Ralph Waldo Emerson (salon.com)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Thoughts and actions
“The ancestor of every action is a thought. ” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Angry minute
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Persecution and not…
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. –Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882). Related articles Positive Thinking: How to Change Your Future (michellecareer.wordpress.com) Listening to Emerson; Go Be Self-Reliant (notanothermillennial.com) Equanimity (wildwesterngirl.wordpress.com) Favorite Quotes II (leslierittoperourblog.typepad.com) Quotes are not always…
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Excess wisdom
“The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson Related articles Quote(s) of the Day – Ralph Waldo Emerson on Friendship, Virtue and Success (schnik.it) Thursday Thanks – Wisdom of Experience (thekindnesskronicles.wordpress.com)
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Edward B Butler: Enthusiasm
“One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life. ” —Edward B Butler. Related articles The Value of Enthusiasm (flbl.wordpress.com) Enthusiasm Sells! (lifeworkelements.wordpress.com) Enthusiasm (akissofbliss.wordpress.com)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Belief and unbelief
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them. —Ralph Waldo Emerson Related articles Ralph Waldo Emerson’s head made out of electrical outlets and switches (boingboing.net)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: How and why
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some,…
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Ambrose Pierce: Patience
“Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. ” —Ambrose Pierce. Related articles Patience (esetipeno.wordpress.com) Why Patience is a Virtue! (ctesthetic.com) Patience (becomingbeckykent.wordpress.com) Patience – an art? (biosil.wordpress.com) Patience (angelabee.wordpress.com) (Im)Patience (thenewtruelies.wordpress.com) Patience is Certainty (monicakupfer.wordpress.com) Patience (goingpsycho.wordpress.com)
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