Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 116

• Can rules or tutors educate
  The semigod whom we await?
  He must be musical,
  Tremulous, impressional,
  Alive to gentle influence
  Of landscape and of sky
  And tender to the spirit-touch
  Of man's or maiden's eye.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.363

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• Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ocean, Character, Perception

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.226

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• In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Islands, Talking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.522, Library of America

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• He only is rich who owns the day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Independence, Rich

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.150

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• Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Simplicity, Dresses

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.135

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• Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. The simplest utterances are worthiest to bewritten, yet are they so cheap, and so things of course, that, in the infinite riches of the soul, it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground, or bottling a little air in a phial, when the whole earth and the whole atmosphere are ours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Simple, Air, Simplicity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.90, Graphic Arts Books

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• The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sleep, Waiting, Eating

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.540, Рипол Классик

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• Our moods do not believe in each other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Mood, Vacuity

  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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• We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Men, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1469, Delphi Classics

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• But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cities, Giving, Water

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.76, 谷月社

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• The rule for hospitality and Irish "help," is, to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessylearns to cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it, and the guests are well served.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Guests, Dinner

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• Rude poets of the tavern hearth,
  squandering your unquoted mirth,
  which keeps the ground, and never soars,
  while jake retorts, and reuben roars;
  tough and screaming, as birch-bark,
  goes like bullet to its mark;
  while the solid curse and jeer
  never balk the waiting ear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rude, Waiting, Jake

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1847). “Poems”, p.103

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• If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade,--the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element, and forcing it on our distinct notice,--we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Real, Passion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.122

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• Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics. So muchfate, so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enter into it, that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiration, Advice, Doubt

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• The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Behavior, Court, Maxims

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.97, Harvard University Press

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• The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessedno other faculties than the palate, the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,--Will it bake bread?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Giving, Three

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Generosity, Giving, Debt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.239

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• The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hair, Justice, Judging

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.354

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• The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tea, Flannels, Slippers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1200, Delphi Classics

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• Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teaching, Sky, Office

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• The lord is the peasant that was,
  The peasant is the lord that shall be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lord, Peasants

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.72, Harvard University Press

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• What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tears, Forests, Opinion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.378

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• The God who made New Hampshire
  Taunted the lofty land
  With little men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Land, Littles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.509, Harvard University Press

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• What care though rival cities soar
  Along the stormy coast,
  Penn's town, New York, Baltimore,
  If Boston knew the most!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  New York, Boston, Cities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.216, Delphi Classics

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• I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Destiny, Boston, Civilization

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, John H. Woods, James Elliot Cabot (1887). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: A memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

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