Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 117

• The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose ... We distinguish the announcements of the soul, its manifestations of its own nature, by the term Revelation. These are always attended by the emotion of the sublime. For this communication is an influx of the Divine mind into our mind. It is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life. Every distinct apprehension of this central commandment agitates men with awe and delight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Men, Sea

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• Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Reality, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Brother, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.22, Xist Publishing

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• Up and away for life! be fleet!-
  The frost-king ties my fumbling feet,
  Sings in my ears, my hands are stones,
  Curdles the blood to the marble bones,
  Tugs at the heart-strings, numbs the sense,
  And hems in life with narrowing fence.
  Well, in this broad bed lie and sleep,-
  The punctual stars will vigil keep,-
  Embalmed by purifying cold;
  The winds shall sing their dead-march old,
  The snow is no ignoble shroud,
  The moon thy mourner, and the cloud.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Kings, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.234, Delphi Classics

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• It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Simple, Simplicity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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• The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Good Man, Manners

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.413

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• Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Praise, Spoiled

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Intellectual, Bait

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.275, Penguin

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• We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, America, Liberty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4089, Delphi Classics

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• All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Historical, Minorities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871”, p.315, University of Georgia Press

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• There is one mind common to all individual men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Mind, Common

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Essays”, p.3

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• The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, May, Delight

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• Infancy conforms to nobody;
  all conform to it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.260, Library of America

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• The heroic cannot be the common,
  nor the common the heroic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Common, Reconcile

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.379, Library of America

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• The French woman says,
  'I am a woman and a Parisienne,
  and nothing foreign to me
  appears altogether human.'

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  French Woman, Humans

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• Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiration, Few Words, Enormous

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.41, Editora Dracaena

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• The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mediocrity, Hopeless, Doom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.72, Penguin

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• Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. And this because the heart in thee is the heart of all; not a valve, not a wall, not an intersection is there anywhere in nature, but one blood rolls uninterruptedly in endless circulation through all men, as the water of the globe is all one sea, and, truly seen, its tide is one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Heart, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.399, Library of America

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• When half-gods go
  The gods arrive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Half

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.338, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Charity, Philanthropy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Excess

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.447, Рипол Классик

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• Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, White Man, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.458, Harvard University Press

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• If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Song, Spring, Autumn

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• In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Men, Feet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1959). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

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• What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Vision

  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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