Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Power
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Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!
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Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding
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All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events, and strong with their strength.
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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
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Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
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Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
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A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.
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The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.
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We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.
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Valor consists in the power of self recovery.
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All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
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Power educates the potentate.
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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.
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Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.
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When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.
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The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.
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The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
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He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.
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You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.
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The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.
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Wherever there is power there is age.
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Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.
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Life is a search after power.
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But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.
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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
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