Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 118

• To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Laughing, Stories, Laugh Often

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• Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gratitude, Prayer, Memories

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1191, Delphi Classics

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• If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Years, Cost

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• Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Land, Squares

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1081, Library of America

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• Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Scared, Gypsy, Attractive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.245, Harvard University Press

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• When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Apples, Intellectual, Delight

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

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• Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Tree, Vigor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1490, Delphi Classics

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• The only reward of virtue is virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Rewards, Virtue

  Essays "Friendship" (1841)

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• Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Mistake, Grieving

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• Meek young men grow up in libraries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Growing Up, Men, Library

  The American Scholar sec. 2 (1837)

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• No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Humorous, Names

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• Souls are not saved in bundles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Salvation, Bundles

  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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• Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sound, Sanity, Relation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.199, Harvard University Press

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• Every man is grave alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Graves, Seriousness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1961). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: 1822-1826”, p.268, Harvard University Press

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• The State is our neighbors; our neighbors are the State.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Neighbor, States

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.164, Harvard University Press

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• Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Song, Art, Echoes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.195, The Floating Press

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• Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Possibility, Shows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2582, Delphi Classics

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• Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Narrative, Eloquence, Grounded

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

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• What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perseverance, What If, Dirt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4008, Delphi Classics

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• A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Eye, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.152

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• The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Spiritual, Art

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.163

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• Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Age, Comfort, Relief

  Journal, 1864, in Linda Allardt et al. (eds.) 'The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson' vol. 15, 1860-6 (1982) p. 428

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• The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Suffering, Sound

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

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• Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wind, Bikers

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