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Running Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

40 Running quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A market vendor runs with fire and water, juggling chores all day. Other quotes describe running as a way to face danger, to follow a personal calling, or to explore thoughts that stack like layers of rock. A hero is praised for fearing to run away, not for staying still.

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Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.

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A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

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Self trust is the essence of heroism.

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The borrower runs in his own debt.

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Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

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The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope…

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The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

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Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into…

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Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one.

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Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.

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The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.

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The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.

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Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

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Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find…

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Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the…

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Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation…

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The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God.…

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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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Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can…

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The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs…

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Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the…

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The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the…

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The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane;…

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“The world -- this shadow of the soul, or other me, lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my…

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Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of…

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When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is…

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I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not…

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You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in…

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The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are…

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In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

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It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to…

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Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person…

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“We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and…

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The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in…

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Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to…

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It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to…

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Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction;…

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We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The…

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To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and…

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The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action…

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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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