Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 150

• Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Breasts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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• Nature tells every secret once.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Science, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.380

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• There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Giving

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

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• Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nuts, Perfect, Sound

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Plato, or the philosopher”, p.21, Editora Dracaena

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• The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Age, Looks, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3229, Delphi Classics

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• The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Forgiveness, Men, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.159, Penguin

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• The world is his who can see through its pretension.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World, Deafness, American Scholar

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.71, Penguin

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• Tart, cathartic virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Virtue, Cathartic, Tarts

  On Plutarch's Lives, in 'Essays' (1841) 'Heroism'

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• Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Weather, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.25, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  News, Acceptable

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• The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Late, Gates

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3961, Delphi Classics

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• Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sculpture, Awful, Vain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1925*). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in One Volume”

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• If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Thinking, Red

  'Brahma' (1867)

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• We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fear, Uneasy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.154

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• Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moon, Air, Sun

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.161, Penguin

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• I honor health as the first Muse.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Honor, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.227

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• The highest Beauty should be plain set.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Should, Highest

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.244, Harvard University Press

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• Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Travel, White

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.450, Penguin

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• We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus, in his sonnets, the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers, he finds to be the shadow of his beloved; time, which keeps her from him, is his chest; the suspicion she has awakened, is her ornament

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Flower, Passion, Bird

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.51, Penguin

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• Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Sometimes, Whole

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• Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Eye, Iron

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen E. Whicher (1959). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.285, Harvard University Press

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• Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nuts, Cracks, Forests

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.454, Penguin

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• Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sailing, Nautical, Vexation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with annotations”

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• It is time to be old
  To take in sail.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sailing, Sail

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.249, Delphi Classics

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• Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Sports, Way

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