Glory Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

9 Glory quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s reflections on glory unfold across nine brief lines, each blending his love of nature with a call for personal greatness. They offer a succinct, inspirational boost.

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I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity…

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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

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The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

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Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

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The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at…

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And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives…

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Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to…

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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual…

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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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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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A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…

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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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