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As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Destiny, Done, Fortune
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.117, Harvard University Press

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Fate, Destiny
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.13

To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habitat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Animal, Destiny, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (195?). “The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in one volume: including the poems, philosophic and inspirational essays, and biographical studies”

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate, Destiny, Fire
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.87, Penguin

Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mother, Destiny, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.79, Penguin

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Night, Destiny
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2461, Delphi Classics

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe, Fate, Destiny

The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Destiny, Effort, Our Destiny
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.325

We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health, Destiny, Use
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1909). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with annotations edited by Edward Waldo Emerson, and Waldo Emerson Forbes”, p.78, Рипол Классик

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate, Destiny, Intellectual
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stars, Fear, Destiny
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.84, Penguin

The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Destiny, Doctrine, Resignation
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.23, Harvard University Press

Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Destiny, Oracles, Said
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.353

There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Encouragement, Destiny
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.621, Library of America

Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order, and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge, Heart, Destiny
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.305, Cosimo, Inc.

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leadership, Destiny, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.477

I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Destiny, Boston, Civilization
Ralph Waldo Emerson, John H. Woods, James Elliot Cabot (1887). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: A memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Destiny, Transition, Metamorphosis
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.76, Harvard University Press

If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character, Fate, Destiny
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.254, Penguin

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