Doe Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

114 Doe quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s musings on Doe echo his transcendentalist leanings, emphasizing individual insight and nature. One hundred fourteen passages provide a rich, contemplative journey.

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Necessity does everything well.

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The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

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There is no one who does not exaggerate!

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The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.

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The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.

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The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

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The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.

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The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

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Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

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Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.

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[The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.

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The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

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For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the…

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There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

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The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

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What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.

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I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of…

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Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not…

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Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your…

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No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by…

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Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion…

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It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience,…

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The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyoneÂ… Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though…

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Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to…

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The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is…

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Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander…

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes…

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Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in…

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The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm.…

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Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject…

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A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps…

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Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under…

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What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show.…

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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;…

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It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of…

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Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike…

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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when…

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We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own. If…

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Society does not love its unmaskers.

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God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be…

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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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