Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 104

• It is with a good book as it is with good company.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Good Company

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• One must be an inventor to read well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Creative Writers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.66, Penguin

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• The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Gardening, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.636, Modern Library

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• In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class, by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of thousands feel though they cannot say.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Successful, Air

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2474, Delphi Classics

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• My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Sex, Wall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.62, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Friends, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.96

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• Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Men, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.69, 谷月社

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• I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.

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  Friendship, Eye, Moon

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both.

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  Friendship, Trust, Essence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.70, 谷月社

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• I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.

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  Friendship, Pride, Accomplishment

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1339, Delphi Classics

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• Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

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  Friendship, Dream, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.113, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.

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  Friendship, Law, Games

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.65, Jazzybee Verlag

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• An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Girl, Education, Teacher

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.369

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• You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, College, Professors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his eyes see through the earth, his ears understand the language of beast and bird, and the sense of the wind; and, through his sympathy, heaven and earth should talk with him. But that is not our science.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Eye, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.468

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• Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What manner of man does science make? The boy is not attracted. He says, I do not wish to be such a kind of man as my professor is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Revenge, Hate

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• People seem sheathed in their tough organization.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Organization, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.406, Harvard University Press

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• It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Simplicity, Elements

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1659, Delphi Classics

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• Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord, not because he is the most subtile inhabitant, but because he is its head and heart, and finds something of himself in every great and small thing, in every mountain stratum, in every new law of color, fact of astronomy, or atmospheric influence which observation or analysis lay open.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.57, Penguin

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• The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;" "the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest, the difference of weight being compensated by time;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life, than when confined to technical use.

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  Science, Law, Differences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.153

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• Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of themanly contemplation of the whole.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Clouds, Sight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.66, Harvard University Press

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• We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

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  Inspirational, Creativity, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1397, Delphi Classics

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• It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.

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  Creativity, Men, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1621, Delphi Classics

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• Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

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  Creativity, Mind, Suffering

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.164, U of Nebraska Press

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• Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Creativity, Simple

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.59

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