Attraction Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

10 Attraction quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson's ten short reflections on attraction blend philosophy with everyday observation. They’re designed to provoke thought about what draws us together, without overwhelming detail.

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The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.

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The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such…

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The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.

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There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

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“The world -- this shadow of the soul, or other me, lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my…

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There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to…

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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire.…

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.…

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How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to…

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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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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

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“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…

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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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Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power…

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