Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 151

• Goodness that preaches undoes itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Goodness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.31, Harvard University Press

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• The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Taken, Office, Patents

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2459, Delphi Classics

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• It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it comes a Latin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Latin, Sunday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, Рипол Классик

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• A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Stills, Spells

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, Harvard University Press

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• I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Fear, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Eye, Tragedy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3240, Delphi Classics

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• There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Pain, Grief

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “The Power of Emerson's Wisdom”

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• I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Sleep, Honor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.156, Harvard University Press

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• People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Mind, Littles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1912). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Air, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.425, Harvard University Press

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• Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Clubs, Produce, Conversation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.14, Harvard University Press

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• The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Self, Let It Go

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1912). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rags, Creation, Ends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.73, North Atlantic Books

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• By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Christian, Mind, Mature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.187, Graphic Arts Books

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• Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Christian, Stoic, Christendom

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

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• It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Christian, Curious, Idealism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.263, Courier Corporation

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• How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Art, Tired

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.117, Harvard University Press

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• The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ideas, House, Ends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851”, p.286, Harvard University Press

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• No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Criticism, Reviews

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.250, Harvard University Press

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• Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Crowds, Vote

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.449

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• Wait, and thy soul shall speak.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Waiting, Soul, Speak

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.98

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• If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Divinity, Harbors, Grandeur

  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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• The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wine, Sorcery, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.195, Penguin

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• It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Taste, Formidable, Englishmen

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “English traits”, p.115

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• Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Men, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2676, Delphi Classics

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