Ralph Waldo Emerson - SimplyNeo Quotes

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

" 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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" 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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" Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.
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" Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good."

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" Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood."

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Life Quotes Success

" When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands."

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" Life is a progress, and not a station."

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" It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

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" Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."

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" Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth.
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" To fill the hour -- that is happiness."

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" He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."

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" Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy."

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" Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams."

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" Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command."

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