Four Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

8 Four quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson’s reflections on the concept of four weave philosophy with nature. These eight short quotes distill his transcendental insight into a tidy, thought‑provoking collection.

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four…

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...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion.…

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What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from…

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Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love,…

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Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who…

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.

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The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow…

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Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

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If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…

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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 and 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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