Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 154

• The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Differences, Inward, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.442, Harvard University Press

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• The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Voice, Tone

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1410, Delphi Classics

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• In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Virtue, Comprehension

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.60, Penguin

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• In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Creativity, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.157

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• An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Artist, Hands, Gone

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.386, Harvard University Press

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• A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Two, Humanity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.382, Harvard University Press

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• Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Curiosity, Importance

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

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• Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, House, He Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.105, U of Nebraska Press

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• The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your bookshelf and your task. When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you, and you shall accept that loathsomeness with joy. The moth must fly to the lamp, and you must solve those questions though you die.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Successful, Men, Talking

  "Letters and social aims". Inspiration. Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1875.

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• The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Ministry, Apparitions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.61, Harvard University Press

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• The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Painting, Best Picture, Painter

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”

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• If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when love has once departed From the eyes of the false-hearted, And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed, Thou shalt seem, in each reply, A vixen to his altered eye; Thy softest pleadings seem too bold, Thy praying lute will seem to scold; Though thou kept the straightest road, Yet thou errest far and broad.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Grief, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.55, Delphi Classics

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• The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Snakes, Rude, Atheism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.78, Penguin

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• he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Writing, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.397

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• I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained, and he only holds the key to his own secret. By your tampering and thwarting and too much governing he may be hindered from his end and kept out of his own. Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Lying, Believe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.507, Penguin

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• The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Our World, Mind, Action

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• To Be is to live with God.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God

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• A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Bystanders, Sick

  1860 The Conduct of Life,'Considerations by the Way'.

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• Who loses a day loses life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  One Day, Waste, Loses

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• Life is too short to waste.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life Is Too Short, Humanity, Waste

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.30

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• A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Patience, Weed, Use

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• The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Aristocracy, Gone, Democrat

  1850 Representative Men,'Napoleon, the Man of the World'.

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• The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, History, Oracles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.104, Penguin

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• No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, No Hope, Fulfilment

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.287, University of Missouri Press

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• The street is full of humiliations to the proud.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Humility, Pride, Proud

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.294, Library of America

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