January 2010
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“The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via emskimo)
“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via ant0ni0)
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“Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the Gods.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via oceanofmind)
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.”
– “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson (via eeeinalem)
“The Religion that is afraid of science dishonours God and commits suicide. It...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via jjarichardson)
“But these impulses may be from below, not from above.” I replied, “They do not seem to me to be as such; but if I am the Devil’s child, I will live then from the Devil.” No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to this or that; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is...
“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via hereishazel)
“The method of nature: who could ever analyze it? That rushing stream will not...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson - The Method of Nature (An Oration delivered before the Society of the Adelphi, Waterville College, Maine, August 11, 1841)
Source: http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/essays/method.html
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“It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the...”
– Raplh Waldo Emerson (via startled)
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“God enters by a private door into every individual.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) (via prunelle)
“Power and speed be hands and feet.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via ryanweatrowski)
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“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via enquotations)
“Patience and fortitude conquer all things”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via greywolfe)
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“To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via ashmossmayer)
An excerpt from "Self Reliance" by Emerson
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There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on the plot of ground which is given him to till. The power which...
“Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via starblinded)
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“The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via potterazzi)
“This perception is a sword such as was never drawn before. It divides and...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via jjarichardson)
“Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via nonancense)
“The poet’s habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via anniediamond)
“A man is known by the books he reads.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via gettinghip)
“Give all to love;
Obey thy heart;
Friends, kindred, days,
Estate, good fame,...”
– “Give All To Love”, Ralph Waldo Emerson (via tinywordssmallbombs)
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“There are always those who think they know what is your responsibility better...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via kaleidoscopicmind)
“We change, whether we like it or not.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via snapshot27)
“Some of your hurts you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived,...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via fernandake)
“The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - “Let there be truth between...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via creativelymaladjusted)
The hand can never execute anything higher than...
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via liveinhislove)
“Envy is ignorance; imitation is suicide.”
– R.W. Emerson (via foreverendedtoday)
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“Forever Starts Now.”
– Emerson. (via thoughtsofmine)
“To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via stickssandstones)
“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you,...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via leftyistrippin)
“A man is what he is thinking all day long.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via drapinski)
“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via iamtea-rriffic)
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“Break the monotony, do something strange and extravagant.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via meldoesgradschool)
“Hence, the less government we have, the better, — the fewer laws, and the less...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via jjarichardson)
“Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via willowing) (via vild) (via jjarichardson)
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“Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via awaytotheskies)
“What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via reluctantbuddha)