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Lives Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.
- He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.
- The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
- The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
- But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that…
- He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.…
- When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.
- The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.
- He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
- Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains…
- That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not…
- If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead.…
- The pleasure of life is according to the man who lives it, and not according to the work or the place.
- The great object of Educationshould be commensurate withthe object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful man…
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- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
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- He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. — Marcus Aurelius
- Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. — Marcus Aurelius