Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Our World Quotes, Mind Quotes

The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.

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Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

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The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

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There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?

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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

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Meek young men grow up in libraries.

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Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

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Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.

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Society is a hospital of incurables.

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

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The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

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The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.

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In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.

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We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

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With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.

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He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.

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The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

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Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.

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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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