Ralph Waldo Emerson - SimplyNeo Quotes

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

" 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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" 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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" The only way to have a friend is to be one."

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" A political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles."

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" People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."

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" Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you."

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" When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers."

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" Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble."

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" We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light."

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" The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

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" The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war."

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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

" There is properly no history; only biography."

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" A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . ."

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" The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails."

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