Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 107

• The dice of God are always loaded.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Luck, Dice

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Compensation'.

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• Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strength, Strong, Believe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.432

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• Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greed, Giants, Growing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.377

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• The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Smoking, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.452, Harvard University Press

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• No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Taken, Men, Knowing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.353

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• Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Limits, Interest

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

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• We put our love where we have put our labor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Effort, Our Love, Work Effort

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.161, Harvard University Press

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• I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Fall, Believe

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• He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Giving Up, Ambition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.472, Harvard University Press

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• Genius appeals to the future.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Future, Genius, Appeals

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• 'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not stop where our eyes lose them, but push the same geometry and chemistry up into the invisible plane of social and rational life, so that, look where we will, in a boy's game, or in the strifes of races, a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Science, Boys

  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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• The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Teaching, Science

  Nature Discipline (p. 38)

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• As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Science, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.311, University of Georgia Press

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• The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Children, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.25, Graphic Arts Books

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• It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Generosity, Debt, Pay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1481, Delphi Classics

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• We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, May, Archangel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.39, 谷月社

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• "Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography; they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Photography, Writing, Thinking

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• "Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call you brother."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Photography, Brother, Artist

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• Nature is saturated with Deity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Deities, Saturated

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.35, Harvard University Press

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• Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, White, Rags

  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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• Power is in nature the essential measure of right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Essentials

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.144, Modern Library

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• He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Goodness, Harbors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.73

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• Where there is no vision a people perish.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Innovation, Insightful

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• The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Divorce, Religion, Morality

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• The shot heard round the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Revolutionary War, Augusta National, April And Spring

  "Concord Hymn" l. 1 (1837)

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