Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Transition Quotes, Action Quotes

The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.

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After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

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Enthusiasm is the engine of success.

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A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

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Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

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Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.

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Love, and you shall be loved.

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Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.

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The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

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Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.

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All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

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When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

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That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past?

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How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.

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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

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The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

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It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a presence and satisfaction. Is it, that beauty can never be grasped? In persons and in landscape is equally inaccessible?

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You can take better care of your secret than another can.

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