{"id":2295,"date":"2016-08-24T08:13:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T12:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2016-08-24T09:42:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T13:42:23","slug":"ralph-waldo-emerson-26-%e2%80%93-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2295","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Waldo Emerson (26 \u2013 50)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through this week <em>By George Journal\u00a0<\/em>is\u00a0posting one hundred\u00a0of our favourite quotes of Ralph Waldo Emerson \u2013 a deep, provocative 19th century author and, we believe, one of the most remarkable of thinkers of our modern age. Here are the next 25\u00a0RWE-gems to reflect upon:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.<\/li>\n<li>A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.<\/li>\n<li>The first wealth is health.<\/li>\n<li>A man&#8217;s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.<\/li>\n<li>Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.<\/li>\n<li>The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.<\/li>\n<li>Sanity is very rare; every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness.<\/li>\n<li>There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich, who want something more; that of the sick, who want something different; and that of the traveler, who says, &#8220;Anywhere but here.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.<\/li>\n<li>When there is no vision, people perish.<\/li>\n<li>Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.<\/li>\n<li>Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.<\/li>\n<li>Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.<\/li>\n<li>The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.<\/li>\n<li>Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.<\/li>\n<li>Every man is a borrower and a mimic; life is theatrical and literature a quotation.<\/li>\n<li>We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.<\/li>\n<li>The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later.<\/li>\n<li>Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.<\/li>\n<li>As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.<\/li>\n<li>No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.<\/li>\n<li>A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.<\/li>\n<li>Whatever limits us we call Fate.<\/li>\n<li>Patience and fortitude conquer all things.<\/li>\n<li>All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Chris George, providing reliable PR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer and experienced communicator? 613-983-0801 @ <a href=\"http:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through this week By George Journal\u00a0is\u00a0posting one hundred\u00a0of our favourite quotes of Ralph Waldo Emerson \u2013 a deep, provocative 19th century author and, we believe, one of the most remarkable of thinkers of our modern age. Here are the next 25\u00a0RWE-gems to reflect upon: \u00a0The reward of a thing well done, is to have done&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[18,38,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8522,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions\/8522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}