Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 106

• Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Punishment, Intelligence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.290, Library of America

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• There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Blood, Vices, Virtue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1968). “Nature: With an Introd., a Note on the Text”

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• The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Morning, Weather

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.187

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• Thought makes everything fit for use.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Ideas, Use

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1420, Delphi Classics

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• Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ideas, Property

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.155, Harvard University Press

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• Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Men, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Light, Mind, World

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• Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Law, Giving

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• The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Power, States

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, second series”, p.128, Harvard University Press

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• The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.' ... There is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Should Have, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1491, Delphi Classics

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• Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Thinking, East

  Journal (1867)

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• Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Book, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1914). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Two, Three, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• New arts destroy the old.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Artist, Destruction

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.93, Graphic Arts Books

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• No sensible person ever made an apology.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Apology, Made, Sensible

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• New York is a sucked orange.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  New York, Orange

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.803, Modern Library

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• Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Honesty, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.111, Coyote Canyon Press

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• What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Imagination, Energy, Arms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.108, Harvard University Press

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• The city is recruited from the country.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Cities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Essays”, p.396, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Laughter, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.127

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• A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Children, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2742, Delphi Classics

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• We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Morning, Spring

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• The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Majority, Hearing

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• Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Levels, Tongue, Wit And Humor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.86, Harvard University Press

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• The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Demand, Ability

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.49, Coyote Canyon Press

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