Desire Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

29 Desire quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson treats desire as a spark that can ignite the soul. In these 29 passages he blends philosophy with poetry, urging readers to let their inner fire guide them toward higher purpose.

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Desire is possibility seeking expression.

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Thou art to me a delicious poison.

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For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.

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Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

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A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

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Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

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What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

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We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

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“The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This”

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

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All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do…

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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It…

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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart.…

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The enthusiast always finds the master, the masters, whom he seeks. Always genius seeks genius, desires nothing so much as to be…

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A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his…

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There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the…

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And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire…

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The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire…

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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our…

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A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers…

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Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do…

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If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old…

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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you…

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The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all…

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If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the…

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A third felicity of age is that ithas found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried,…

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The South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire; But over the dead he has…

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Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it…

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