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1. "Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars. He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions. "In the morning, — solitude;" said Pythagoras; that Nature may speak to the imagination, as she does never in company, and that her favorite may make acquaintance with those divine strengths which disclose themselves to serious and abstracted thought. 'Tis very certain that Plato, Plotinus, Archimedes, Hermes, Newton, Milton, Wordsworth, did not live in a crowd, but descended into it from time to time as benefactors: and the wise instructor will press this point of securing to the young soul in the disposition of time and the arrangements of living, periods and habits of solitude." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. "Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. "Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. "Existentialism "every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind," we have entered the familiar Wordsworthian Romantic territory in which nature is phenomena and spirit is noumena and the task of the human person is to draw his being from whatever inscrutable force produces, organizes, and infuses the phenomenal universe —an "ineffable essence which we call Spirit. Being as not being stable but forever in flux and transition. Even history, Which seems obviously about the past, has its true use as the servant of the present.' Emerson and Buddhism stand for spirituality purged of creed detritus.' the essence of Existentialism is that you find meaning in nature, wisdom, mind and body." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. "We know the secret of the world is profound, but who or what shall be our interpreter, we know not." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. "What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. "Jangan sia-siakan waktu anda untuk ragu-ragu dan takut.Laksanakanlah pekerjaan yang ada di depan mata, sebab tugas asaat ini yang dilaksanakan dengan sebaik-baiknya akan menjadi persiapan terbaik untuk masa-masa yang akan datang." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. "Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you? The walls of their minds are scrawled all over with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. "In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. "Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. "Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. "When it's darkest, men see the stars." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. "Nature will be reported. All things are engaged in writing their history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain; the river, its channel in the soil; the animal, its bones in the stratum; the fern and leaf their modest epitaph in the coal." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. "We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus, in his sonnets, the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers, he finds to be the shadow of his beloved; time, which keeps her from him, is his chest; the suspicion she has awakened, is her ornament" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. "Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
16. "the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought.... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
17. "Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you have omitted every word that he can spare." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. "great is the art" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. "Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. "Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. "The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
22. "O, believe, as thou livest, that every sound that is spoken over the round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear!" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
23. "The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
24. "He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
25. "Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires....courage." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. "Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. "Man is a piece of the universe made alive" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
28. "O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. "To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. "Give all to love;Obey thy heart...." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
31. "Self trust is the essence of heroism." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
33. "The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then?" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. "Why does the same dull current of ignoble blood creep through a thousand generations in China without any provision for its own purification, without the mixture of one drop from the fountains of goodness & glory...? The summit of their philosophy and science is how to make tea...[it goes on and it gets worse]." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
35. "Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. "Books are for nothing but to inspire" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
37. "Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
38. "I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
39. "Nobody can bring you peace but yourself." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
40. "The earth laughs in flowers." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
41. "Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
42. "Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. "Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe. So it is in rugged crises, in unweariable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of question, that the angel is shown." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
44. "Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. "What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
46. "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. "To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
48. "Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. "It is a luxury to be understood." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
50. "Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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