Resources Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

9 Resources quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson contemplates resources through a transcendental lens, offering nine brief reflections that merge nature, mind, and material.

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Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves;…

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Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

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The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a…

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Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his…

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The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust:…

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Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends,…

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Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their…

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The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal,…

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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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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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