Ralph Waldo Emerson - SimplyNeo Quotes

"Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams." - Ralph Waldo Emerson,

" Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves."

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" Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. Journals, 1843"

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" It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

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" By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent."

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" Self-trust is the first secret of success."

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" Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors."

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" Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."

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" The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one."

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" I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

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" All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands."

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" The reality is more excellent than the report."

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" Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been like the blast of triumph out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul."

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" The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant."

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" Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear."

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" The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide."

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" These rabble at Washington ... see, against the unanimous expression of the people, how much a little well-directed effrontery can achieve, how much crime the people will bear, and they proceed from step to step... (Journal, June 1846)"

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" What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

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Independence Day Life Quotes

" Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous, half possession."

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" Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."

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" Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely."

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" People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them."

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" We wish to be self-sustained. We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten."

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" There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion . . . It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

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Education Quotes

" What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid but that which is in his nature, and which must grow out of him as long as he exists. The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness."

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" For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land or life, if freedom fail?
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" Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?"

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" The two parties which ide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.
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" The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going."

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" If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labour, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor."

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