Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Work Quotes, Mean Quotes

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

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For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.

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Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

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Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!

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If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.

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The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.

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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

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Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.

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When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

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Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

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I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

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The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

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Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.

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I am always for the man who wishes to work.

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

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If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.

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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

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There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.

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