Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 129

• No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Doe, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.261, Penguin

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• As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Neurosis, Disease

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.24, Harvard University Press

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• God is Unity, but always works in variety.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Oneness, Unity, Variety

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.177, Harvard University Press

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• Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Differences, Forgiving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.203, Рипол Классик

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• Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passion, Overcoming, Resistance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.452

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• There is no true orator who is not a hero.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Oratory, Orators

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.94

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• Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Paradise, Surprise, Stairways

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4360, Delphi Classics

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• Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Feelings, Would Be, Poverty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.98, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Bread Of Life, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Progress, Strive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.32, Penguin

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• The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Men, Sky

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.24, Penguin

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• This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Quality, Encounters, Body

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• Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Men, Literature

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• The reality is more excellent than the report.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reality, Excellent, Reports

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.204, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• No book was ever written down by any but itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reputation, Written

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.317, Library of America

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• Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tears, Mouths, Reputation

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• I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moral, Rhetoric, Theology

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2730, Delphi Classics

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• The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Radiance, World, Satisfaction

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.15, Рипол Классик

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• The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Wind, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Problem”

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• You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wine, Character, Artist

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.434

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• A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Want, Life Is

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• Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Blessing, Odes

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• The true ship is the ship builder.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ships, Builder

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.244, Library of America

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• I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Community, Slavery

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2995, Delphi Classics

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• The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Poet, Credentials

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.203, Harvard University Press

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