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Sunday, December 16, 2012

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes 2



Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




We are always getting ready to live but never living.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson



Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


 

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


 

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



 

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