Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 145

• Wherever there is power there is age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.317, Рипол Классик

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• Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Inquiry, Exploration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.100, Рипол Классик

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• Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Men, Cities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.70, Penguin

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• The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Secret, Secret Life

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.87

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• One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Stars, Wall

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• Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Courage, Fear

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.15

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• An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kindness, Eye, Heart

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• The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Teacher, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.278, Harvard University Press

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• Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Truth, Integrity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.70, Xist Publishing

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• All the world loves a lover.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Best Love, World Love, World

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• A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Curiosity, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1342, Delphi Classics

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• In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Hands, Broken

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2797, Delphi Classics

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• A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, School, Boys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.392, Penguin

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• There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.66, Penguin

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• Frankness invites frankness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1857). “Essays: First Series”, p.215

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• When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow; nor any literary reputation or the so-called eternal names of fame that many not be refused and condemned.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Names, Risk, Pieces

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• By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
  Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
  Here once the embattled farmers stood,
  And fired the shot heard round the world.
  The foe long since in silence slept;
  Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
  And Time the ruined bridge has swept
  Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
  On this green bank, by this soft stream,
  We set to-day a votive stone;
  That memory may their deed redeem,
  When, like our sires, our sons are gone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Spring, Sleep

  "Concord Hymn" l. 1 (1837)

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• To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Military, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.80, Graphic Arts Books

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• There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have slept or if you have head ache or sciatica or leprosy or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace and not pollute the morning.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Attitude, Angel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.392

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• Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, War, Adversity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2631, Delphi Classics

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• Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Humility, Pride, Example

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• Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Identity, Analogies, Findings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.45, Modern Library

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• The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Lying, Play

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.7

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• One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Eye, Identity

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• Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lonely, Loneliness, Discovery

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.282, Penguin

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