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title: "27 Effects Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson"
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> [Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/sculpture-and-painting-have-the-effect-of-teaching-us-manners-and/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/prayer-as-a-means-to-effect-a-private-end-is-theft-and-meanness/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-effect-of-the-indulgence-of-human-affection-is-a-certain-cordial/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/skepticism-is-unbelief-in-cause-and-effect/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-art-of-sculpture-is-long-ago-perished-to-any-real-effect-it-is/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/cause-and-effect-means-and-ends-seed-and-fruit-cannot-be-severed-for/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/let-us-learn-to-live-coarsely-dress-plainly-and-lie-hard-the-least/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-you-believe-in-the-soul-do-not-clutch-at-sensual-sweetness-before/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/man-is-endogenous-and-education-is-his-unfolding-the-aid-we-have-from/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/so-use-all-that-is-called-fortune-most-men-gamble-with-her-and-gain/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/so-in-writing-there-is-always-a-right-word-and-every-other-than-that/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/nature-forever-puts-a-premium-on-reality-what-is-done-for-effect-is/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-like-manner-the-effect-of-every-action-is-measured-by-the-depth-of/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/thefts-never-enrich-alms-never-impoverish-murder-will-speak-out-of/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-have-heard-that-stiff-people-lose-something-of-their-awkwardness/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-effects-of-opposition-are-wonderful-there-are-men-who-rise/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/as-there-is-no-screen-or-ceiling-between-our-heads-and-the-infinite/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/you-cannot-hide-any-secret-if-the-artist-succor-his-flagging-spirits/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/what-strength-belongs-to-every-plant-and-animal-in-nature-the-tree-or/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. Do not go where the path may lead, go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/self-sacrifice-is-the-real-miracle-out-of-which-all-the-reported-2/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-right-merchant-is-one-who-has-the-just-average-of-faculties-we/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/passion-though-a-bad-regulator-is-a-powerful-spring-any-absorbing/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. A man does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he deals,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/skepticism-is-unbelief-in-cause-and-effect-a-man-does-not-see-that-as/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/success-in-your-work-the-finding-a-better-method-the-better/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/it-is-not-an-arbitrary-decree-of-god-but-in-the-nature-of-man-that-a/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/shallow-men-believe-in-luck-believe-in-circumstances-it-was-somebody/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-moral-sense-reappears-today-with-the-same-morning-newness-that/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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## Other authors on Effects

## More by Ralph Waldo Emerson

> [The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-history-of-mankind-interests-us-only-as-it-exhibits-a-steady-gain/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-we-will-not-interfere-with-our-thought-but-will-act-entirely-or/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-there-is-any-period-one-would-desire-to-be-born-in-is-it-not-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-cannot-speak-but-he-judges-himself-with-his-will-or-against-his/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/consideration-is-the-soil-in-which-wisdom-may-be-expected-to-grow-and/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-then-creative-reading-as-well-as-creative-writing-when-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [The order of things consents to virtue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-order-of-things-consents-to-virtue/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [Life only avails, not the having lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/life-only-avails-not-the-having-lived/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/another-success-is-the-post-office-with-its-educating-energy/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-child-reminds-us-that-playtime-is-an-essential-part-of-our-daily/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/no-man-can-be-criticised-but-by-a-greater-than-he-do-not-then-read/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/coal-lay-in-ledges-under-the-ground-since-the-flood-until-a-laborer/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-am-therefore-i-had-nothing-better-to-do-than-to-think/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-a-library-we-are-surrounded-by-many-hundreds-of-dear-friends-but/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-compensations-of-calamity-are-made-apparent-to-the-understanding/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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