Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 144

• Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Imagination, Path, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Speak, Poet, Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.213, Harvard University Press

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• Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.

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  Summer, Yield, Delight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.31, Harvard University Press

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• God will not make himself manifest to cowards

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Coward, Manifest, Gods Will

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.65, Penguin

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• Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Secret, Who We Are

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

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• Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Giving, Lasts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knows

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• We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Friends, Self

  "Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Apology, Jewels, Portions

  "Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Law, Opposites

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays: First Series”, p.105, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Doing well is a result of doing good.

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  Doing Good, Results, Wells

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• Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Ears

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.150, Harvard University Press

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• The life of truth is cold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cold, Truth Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.490, Library of America

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• The sun shines today also.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Shining, Today, Sun

  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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• Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

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  Wisdom, Writing, Wrens

  1870 Society and Solitude,'Art'.

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• Life is to be lived, not controlled.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life Is, Controlled

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• Never read any book that is not a year old.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Years, Reading Books

  "Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters".

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• Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Soul, Cheerful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.42, Coyote Canyon Press

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• So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.

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  Men, Dust, Youth

  'Voluntaries' no. 3 (1867)

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• Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.

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  Soul, May, Accepting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.79, Penguin

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• The escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence, and cheerful relation, these are the essentials.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Simple, Essentials

  "Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Reality, Greek

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.16, Graphic Arts Books

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• At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Men, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.52, 谷月社

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• Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Solitude

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• Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Inspire, Used

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Howell Foster (1939). “Emerson's theory of poetry”

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