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Succession Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

10 Succession quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If you’re curious about how Emerson tackled the idea of passing the torch, this short set offers a focused glimpse. Though modest in number, each line captures his characteristic blend of optimism and moral nuance, giving you a quick pulse on his take on inheritance and progress.

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The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the…

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We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;…

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Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.

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God had infinite time to give us… He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore,…

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Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper…

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There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what…

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Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but…

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Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd…

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How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced…

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We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;…

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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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