Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s motivation - 6

Paying tribute to the authors whose words continue to live on

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

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