Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 156

• The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faces, Cliffs, Hours

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.115, Harvard University Press

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• Nature ever faithful is
  To such as trust her faithfulness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Faithful, Faithfulness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.69, The Floating Press

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• In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Certain, Situation, Ifs

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• A beautiful soul always dwells in a beautiful world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Soul, World

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• There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Ignorance, Men

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• We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Feet, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.169, Harvard University Press

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• We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Real, Men

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• Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inward, Action, Appearance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.72, Graphic Arts Books

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• Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Coward, Finals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sacrifice, Law, Good Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2581, Delphi Classics

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• Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own; but when they see it proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sacrifice, Love Is, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2499, Delphi Classics

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• No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Class, Mind, Quality

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• What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Gentleman, Sage

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.113, Рипол Классик

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• The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Century, Passages, Prize

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1962). “The Portable Emerson”

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• Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, College, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.325, Bantam Classics

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• I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Exercise, Men, Weight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

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• Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intellectual, Society, Credit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.256, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Views, Society, Citizens

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.223, University of Georgia Press

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• Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doe, Coal, Saving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.319, Harvard University Press

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• English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doors, English History, Class

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.243

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• Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not "Devil's wine," but God's wine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Wine, Epic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1425, Delphi Classics

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• To the birds and trees he talks:
  Caesar of his leafy Rome,
  There the poet is at home.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Home, Rome

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Emerson: Poems”, p.197, Everyman's Library

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• For this present, hard
  Is the fortune of the bard,
  Born out of time;
  All his accomplishment,
  From Nature's utmost treasure spent,
  Booteth not him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Accomplishment, Poetry, Treasure

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2007). “Poems”, p.44, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Character, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1202, Delphi Classics

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• In old Egypt, it was established law, that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think it was much under-estimated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Egypt, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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