Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 138

• The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Needs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.410

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• As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

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  Spiritual, Culture, Checks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.83, Penguin

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• But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.

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  Hard Times, Brave, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.377

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• No institution will be better than the institutor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Institutions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.211

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• I think all men know better than they do; know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they darenot trust their presentiments.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Thinking, Institutions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.153

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• You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.

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  Institutions, Peril, Institute

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.444, Modern Library

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• We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but every thing, at the end of one use, is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.

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  And Love, Use, Ascent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1583, Delphi Classics

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• But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Compassion, Lovely, Degrading

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• The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

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  Race, World, Mixtures

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.22

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• Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.

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  Fashion, Children, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.481, Рипол Классик

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• Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is bent on expression. The tell-tale body is all tongues. Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement.

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  Wise, Men, Expression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.409

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• There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determinefor the curious their standing in the world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods. Accept their coldness as an omen of grace with the loftier deities, and allow them all their privilege.

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  Grace, World, Mercury

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.86, 谷月社

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• How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.

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  Garden, Land, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.200, Рипол Классик

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• The world globes itself in a drop of dew.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dew, World, Globes

  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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• Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

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  World, Microcosm, Particles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.27, Harvard University Press

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• Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.

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  Eye, Cities, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.542, Library of America

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• Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

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  Hands, Pay, Too Much

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.17

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• The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

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  Luck, Genius, Fortune

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.216

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• Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!

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  Intelligent, Men, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.387

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• A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.

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  Cousin, Uncles, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.350, Library of America

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• Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.

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  Conversation, Relation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Orations and Lectures”, p.122

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• We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, Men, Pet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.388

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• There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

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  Progress, Events, Appearance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.253, Harvard University Press

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• A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,Mnot bodily, the whole circle of his friends, but atmospherically. He should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation, which his daily associates draw him to, else he is shorn of his best beams, and will be an orphan in the merriest club.

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  Attitude, Reality, Men

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• Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Religious, Literature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.364

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