Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Sleep

• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Mom, Mother

• Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fitness, Health, Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.227

• Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sleep, Eye, Night

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.471, Library of America

• Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Wall, Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.206, Courier Corporation

• Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid, Day's toil and it's guerdon, They are all vanishing, Fleeing to fables, Cannot be moored

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spring, Sleep, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.445, Harvard University Press

• Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes”

• The forest waves, the morning breaks,
  The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,
  Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be
  And life pulsates in rock or tree.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Nature, Morning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.59, Рипол Классик

• The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Sleep, Night

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.54, Harvard University Press

• By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
  Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
  Here once the embattled farmers stood,
  And fired the shot heard round the world.
  The foe long since in silence slept;
  Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
  And Time the ruined bridge has swept
  Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
  On this green bank, by this soft stream,
  We set to-day a votive stone;
  That memory may their deed redeem,
  When, like our sires, our sons are gone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Spring, Sleep

  "Concord Hymn" l. 1 (1837)

• The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Lying, Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

• Up and away for life! be fleet!-
  The frost-king ties my fumbling feet,
  Sings in my ears, my hands are stones,
  Curdles the blood to the marble bones,
  Tugs at the heart-strings, numbs the sense,
  And hems in life with narrowing fence.
  Well, in this broad bed lie and sleep,-
  The punctual stars will vigil keep,-
  Embalmed by purifying cold;
  The winds shall sing their dead-march old,
  The snow is no ignoble shroud,
  The moon thy mourner, and the cloud.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Kings, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.234, Delphi Classics

• The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passion, Heart, Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.156

• If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Sleep, Shows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.51, Penguin

• What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Courage, Morning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1909). “Essays and English Traits”

• Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Heart

  "Society and Solitude". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Success", 1870.

• Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sleep, Waking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.40, The Floating Press

• We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Time, Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.326, Modern Library

• What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Inspiration, Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

• The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Sleep, Sublime

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.29, Bantam Classics

• Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Sleep, Two

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.145, Harvard University Press

• Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sleep, Costumes, Deeds

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.156, Harvard University Press

• I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Sleep, Honor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.156, Harvard University Press

• The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Sleep, Loss

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.76, 谷月社

• The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sleep, Waiting, Eating

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.540, Рипол Классик

• Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate; he will not lift his hand to save his life; he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth, with hope, courage, fertile in resources, and keen for daring adventure.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tired, Adventure, Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.156, Harvard University Press

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