Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 105

• Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Emotional, Feelings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.46, Harvard University Press

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• Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

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  Hero, Greatness, Forever

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• I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

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  Friends, Art, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1365, Delphi Classics

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• A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.529, Library of America

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• Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Suggestions

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• Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Bullying, Men, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.320, Harvard University Press

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• For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Character, Personality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.399

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• I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

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  Fashion, Clothes, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.48, Harvard University Press

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• Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

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  Hate, Son, Iron

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.26, Library of America

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• The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

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  Education, Cheer, Teaching

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.182

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• To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

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  Mistake, Believe, Errors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3925, Delphi Classics

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• Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, School, Understanding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Apples, Experience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.377

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• Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

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  Distance, Teaching, Quality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.218, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

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  Freedom, Fate, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1859). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life”, p.23

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• There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Citizens, Genius, Talent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.265, Harvard University Press

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• Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Errors, Profound, Everyday

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• The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Men, Spirit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.92, Penguin

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• Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.

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  Simple, Law, Unseen

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.73, North Atlantic Books

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• There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Exercise, Law, Imagination

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• Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Romance, Ships, Sail

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.202, Penguin

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• There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Race, Politics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.429, Harvard University Press

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• The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hatred, Selfishness, Radicalism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.376, Library of America

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• He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Hands, Bayonets

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1919). “The Conduct of Life: Nature and Other Essays”

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• Wise men are not wise at all times.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.364

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