Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 143

• Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, House

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• The secret of poetry is never explained,— is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, and the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, and knows not that they are such. 'T is as easy as breath. 'T is like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, and none knows what it is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Play, House

  "Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ridiculous

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.72, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, House, Atheism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

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• So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Ideas, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.48, Library of America

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• There are books... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Parent, Passionate

  "Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters".

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• Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.413, Harvard University Press

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• Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Echoes, Sides

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

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• Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Destiny, Transition, Metamorphosis

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.76, Harvard University Press

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• People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Sarcastic, Writing

  "Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843".

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• The student is to read history actively and not passively.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Students

  "The Portable Emerson".

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• I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Games, Childhood, Youth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.25, The Floating Press

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• Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Stones, Influence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson (1904). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes”

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• I unsettle all things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  All Things

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.74, Penguin

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• Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Opinion, Tomorrow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.26, Graphic Arts Books

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• Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Path, Divine, Circuits

  Essays "Spiritual Laws" (1841)

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• Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teach

  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.89, Harvard University Press

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• Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Faith, Men

  "Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• Keep your friendships in repair.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Patience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871”, p.363, University of Georgia Press

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• Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Use, Firsts

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• Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Single, Truth, Integrity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Penguin

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• Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Heart

  "Society and Solitude". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Success", 1870.

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• Moderation in all things, especially moderation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moderation, Moderation In All Things, All Things

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• There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before. Not only man puts things in a row, but things belong in a row.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Block, Men, Design

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, University of Georgia Press

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• The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Ambition, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2800, Delphi Classics

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