Life Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

430 Life quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The depth of life matters more than how long it lasts. Emerson’s words tell us that each present hour is a chance to be our best. They also speak of climbing to a higher place, staying focused, and feeling youthful even when the world feels heavy.

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Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

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Life has a way of demanding that you live it.

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Every man is eloquent once in his life.

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Life too near paralyses art.

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Life is too short to waste.

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Life is a search after power.

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Man's life is a progress, not a station.

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“a man only knows what he's experienced”

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The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

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Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.

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Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals

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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

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Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

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Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

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Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full…

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Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life…

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In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece…

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Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what…

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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as…

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In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life…

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“We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or grand moments, that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not…

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“Let us honestly state the facts. Our America has a bad name for superficialness. Great men, great nations have not been boasters…

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.…

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The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing,"…

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“If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the…

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The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high…

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To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation…

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When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall…

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We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between…

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“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in…

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Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the…

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The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the…

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“Whilst I adore this ineffable life which is at my heart, it will not condescend to gossip with me, it will not…

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The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead,…

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“Beneath a necessity thus almighty, what is artificial in man's life seems insignificant. He seems to take his task so minutely from…

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If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church,…

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As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no…

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…

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