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Power Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

82 Power quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson likens coal deep underground to black diamonds that workers bring up with pickaxes. He says real power lives in motion, in the moment when something changes, not when it stays still. He also believes that natural power is tied to moral strength and that art can turn night into day.

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Power is the first good.

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Power and speed be hands and feet.

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Wherever there is power there is age.

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The lover of letters loves power too.

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There is no knowledge that is not power

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Power dwells with cheerfulness.

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Life is a search after power.

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Do the thing and you will be given the power

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“The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.”

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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

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Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.

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Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

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You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

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We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

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Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

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Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel

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Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

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These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its…

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The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do,…

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Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand…

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The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

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The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the…

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Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself.

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He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God…

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Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and…

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A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to…

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“The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul. The position men have given to Jesus, now…

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The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own…

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But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back…

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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface.…

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“Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself. The…

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Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations…

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Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons…

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

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Power educates the potentate.

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Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

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Do the thing and you will have the power.

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A good intention clothes itself with power.

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If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it.

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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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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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…

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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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