Forget Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

13 Forget quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson’s reflections on memory’s ebb are distilled into 13 concise lines, each offering a philosophical nudge toward letting the past drift.

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We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to…

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We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have…

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It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

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We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

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Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

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The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

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The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

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All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

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Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can…

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Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry…

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People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man…

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;…

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day,…

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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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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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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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