Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Honesty Quotes, Work Quotes

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

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People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

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The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.

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All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.

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Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

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A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardonpride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.

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Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

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Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.

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In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

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Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

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Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.

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Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.

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The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

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The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

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Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an

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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

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Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected - that he can paint what has occurred and what must occur, with such clearness to a company, as if they saw it done before their eyes. By leading their thought he leads their will, and can make them do gladly what an hour ago they would not believe that they could be led to do at all.

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