Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 131

• All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Men, Sometimes

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• In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Critical Analysis, Society

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.226, Harvard University Press

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• It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.

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  Self, Soul, Society

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.413

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• Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together.

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  Special, Society, Together

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.487, Рипол Классик

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• Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

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  Ideas, Long, Heaven

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2744, Delphi Classics

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• Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend. The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

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  Sympathy, Sadness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.

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  Men, Soul, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.167, Penguin

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• The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

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  Soul, Feds, Faculty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.231

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• The soul knows no persons.

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  Soul, Persons, Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.107, Harvard University Press

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• Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

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  Light, Style, Window

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• We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Men, Fire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.115, Рипол Классик

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• We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perception, Degrees, Taste

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.88, 谷月社

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• What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village and hamlet in the States, if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition! Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots? "He got five millions from the love of brandy, and he should be glad to know which of the virtues would pay him as much." Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

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  Army, Cities, Government

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.438, Harvard University Press

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• Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

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  Acid, Temper, Sweetness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2782, Delphi Classics

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• By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.

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  Dust, Shining, Deities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Orations and Lectures”

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• With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rose, Joy, Hilarity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.328, Library of America

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• How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still. Like an odor of incense, like a strain of music, like a sleep, it is inexact and boundless. It will not be dissected, nor unraveled, nor shown.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Sleep, Incense

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• Traveling is a fool's paradise.

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  Travel, Paradise, Fool

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.

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  Littles, Trifles, Small Things

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.338, Рипол Классик

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• I see my trees repair their boughs.

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  Tree

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.171, The Floating Press

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• We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Power Of Thought

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.145, University of Georgia Press

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• Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.

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  Hurt, Truth, Ruins

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations...”

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• Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.

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  Beautiful, Truth, Truth Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.76, Library of America

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• Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

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  Horse, Men, Vanity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.375

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• The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil. In the stomach of the plant development begins. The tree can draw on the whole air, the whole earth, on all the rolling main. The plant is all suction-pipe,--imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might.

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  Roots, Yield, Air

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.144, Рипол Классик

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