Comfort Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

8 Comfort quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s gentle guidance on finding inner peace is captured in eight thoughtful lines. A brief, soothing read for moments when you need reassurance.

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Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the…

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Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be…

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The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal…

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Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and…

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Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?

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If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration…

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Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept…

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The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the…

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

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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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