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Joy Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

68 Joy quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Joy comes from character and the relationships we build, not from status or wealth. Life is a patchwork of contrasts, with moments of happiness followed by sorrow or bravery. A cheerful face shows cultural success and wisdom, and seeing the work of others can bring even greater joy.

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It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

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Power dwells with cheerfulness.

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[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

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The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.

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The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.

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Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.

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Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.

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Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.

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“Rectitude is a perpetual victory, celebrated not by cries of joy but by serenity, which is joy fixed or habitual.”

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Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

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Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

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To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

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With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.

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Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

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Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high…

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A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.

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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the…

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I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably…

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Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order;…

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The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than…

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In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal…

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The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in…

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But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on…

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Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously; all must be…

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An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered…

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The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every…

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There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis…

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There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind…

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I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There…

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We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip…

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What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village…

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“Fear and hope are alike beneath it. There is somewhat low even in hope. In the hour of vision, there is nothing…

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A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

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I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

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So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.

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Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

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There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

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Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?

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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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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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