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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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«Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.»
«Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.»
«Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.»
«A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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becoming, careful, dark, determine, dominated by, dominates, imaginations, in secret, In The Dark, no doubt, No Secrets, paid, recess, therefore, The Dark, tribute, tributes, worship, worshipping
«A man is related to all nature.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Man,
Nature
| Keywords:
related, related to
«Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.»
«Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character»
«As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Instinct
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Animal World, carries, instinct, neck, rein, reined, reins, The Animal, The Traveler, throws, traveler, trusts
«Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.»
«Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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each day, finish, interpose, interposed, interposing, next, sleep, solid, solidest, temperance, the next, wall
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