Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 113

• All men are poets at heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Men, Poet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.128, Harvard University Press

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• Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Century, Wit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2007). “Poems”, p.228, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Authorship, Sentiments

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.155

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• There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Law, Two

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.108, Delphi Classics

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• In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Divorce, Enthusiasm

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures ...”, p.263

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• None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Soul, Departed

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.85, Penguin

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• A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Mind, Sailor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.13

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• The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Good Man, Earth

  1850 Representative Men,'Uses of Great Men'.

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• The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Liberty, Sound, Mouths

  Journal, Feb. 1851

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• In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Book, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Creation, Nature Beauty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.25, Bantam Classics

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• Nature is the symbol of Spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spirit, Reverence, Symbols

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.20, Library of America

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• ...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Unity, Rays

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.21, Library of America

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• The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lines, Voyages, Ships

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

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• The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ocean

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.169, Harvard University Press

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• There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Soul, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Powerful Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.209, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2007). “Poems”, p.197, Cosimo, Inc.

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• This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name,--this word of France, has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Light, Names, Boredom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.260

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• I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Myerson (2013). “The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.190, Columbia University Press

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• What is excellent,
  As God lives, is permanent;
  Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain,
  Heart's love will meet thee again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Dust, Excellence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.560, Penguin

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• There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Routine, Extravagance, There Is Hope

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Sea, Miracle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

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• There are faces so fluid with expression, so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are. When the delicious beauty of lineament loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared, that an interior and durable form has been disclosed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Expression, Play, Faces

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Encouragement, Destiny

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.621, Library of America

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• I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Hate, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841). “Essays”, p.171

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