Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 153

• The instinct of the people is right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Instinct

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.434, Harvard University Press

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• The poor are only they who feel poor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Poverty, Poor, Feels

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.98, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events, and strong with their strength.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Power, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.71, North Atlantic Books

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• Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Elements, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.28, Harvard University Press

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• I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Tragedy, Barns

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.138, Harvard University Press

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• Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Mean, Ends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.53

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• It is the eye which makes the horizon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Perspective, Horizon

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.262, Harvard University Press

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• Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Church, Might, Sermons

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Years, Next Day

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.327, Harvard University Press

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• If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, East, Delight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.334

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• Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Thinking, Cathedrals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2353, Delphi Classics

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• There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Pieces, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1386, Delphi Classics

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• Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Sight, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.401

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• Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Natural, Theism, Science And Religion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1959). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

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• The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Sight, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.409

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• A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Children, Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Writing, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo, Emerson, (2013). “Nature - Conduct of Life”, p.225, Read Books Ltd

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• No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Men, Perception

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.86, Penguin

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• O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sea, Port, Strikes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.379, Library of America

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• Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeares wit. The men who lived with him becamePoets, for the air was fame.

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  Heart, Men, Air

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2007). “Poems”, p.228, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others flyThey build a nations pillars deepAnd lift them to the sky.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Sleep, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “A Nation's Strength”

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• Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Song, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1090, Library of America

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• The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Constitution, Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1276, Delphi Classics

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• Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Retrospect, Hours

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851”, p.168, Harvard University Press

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• I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, World, Daring

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

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