Wonderful Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

13 Wonderful quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson’s take on the wonderful is distilled into thirteen punchy statements, each echoing his classic transcendentalist tone while staying accessible for a quick read.

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Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.

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Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the…

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The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis,…

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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol…

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When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead…

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We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint…

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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our…

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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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Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of…

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An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered…

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The…

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It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them…

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It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a…

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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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