Peace Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

49 Peace quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson writes that feeling calm comes from inside, not from any outside power. He says peace grows when we understand each other and when we live close to nature. He also reminds us that only we can give ourselves true peace.

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Conformity is the ape of harmony.

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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

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War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.

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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

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“Peace has its victories but it takes brave men to win them”

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My hours are peaceful centuries.

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Lose yourself in nature and find peace

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Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.

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Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

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For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

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Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

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A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

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To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier…

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Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

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Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

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But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back…

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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he…

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Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and…

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The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and…

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There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

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War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the…

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I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a…

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When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports…

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The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we…

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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men…

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Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the…

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“If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the…

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“When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports…

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Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees…

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I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets…

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.…

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Let there be worse cotton and better men.

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Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

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“People are to be taken in very small doses. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”

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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

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Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

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I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

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The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

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