Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; … he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matter compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I learn to be content. But the doctrine of compensation is not the doctrine of indifferency.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no knowledge that is not power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
