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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

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 that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Suicide, Hope
"Essays: First Series, Self-Reliance". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Silence, Soul
"Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity".

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Positive, Work, Greatness

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success, Best Love, Money
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.90

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Greatness, Men

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, Heart, Men
"Self-Reliance". Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Feet, Hiking
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.59

On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Real, Writing
Essays, Second Series "Politics" (1844)

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination, Quality, Flow
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.170, Penguin

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Best Friend, Good God

Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

Every time you wink the stars move.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Stars, Moving

In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, People, Warning

Flowers are the earth laughing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flower, Laughing, Earth

You are constantly invited to be what you are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Invited

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marriage, Funny Love, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.199, Harvard University Press

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jobs, Work, Ambition

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Leadership, Causes

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Success, Clever

Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Impossible, Paid, Ifs
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.143, Courier Corporation

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Life, I Miss You
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.72, Bantam Classics

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Home, People, Mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.82

Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Motivational, Love Is, Effort
"The Art Of Successful Living".

The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom, Humble, Intelligence

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