Results Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

16 Results quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson’s take on results weaves personal responsibility with a larger, almost mystical, sense of purpose. Across 16 concise sayings, the page offers a thoughtful look at how effort translates into lasting impact.

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Doing well is a result of doing good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What we call results are beginnings.

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We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having…

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Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

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A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature.…

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Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be…

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The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's…

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Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out…

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It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out…

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Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular…

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What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion,…

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Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some…

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The scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to selfish ends. He was a…

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The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our…

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Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for…

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The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might…

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